Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 423
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- ISBN
- 9781787438125
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- 'Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City: An Ethnography' is the result of two years’ immersion as ethnographer in a UK free-running community. The book represents a paradigm shift in the way that criminology and the social sciences more broadly have approached the study of leisure. Utilising and developing a deviant leisure theoretical perspective and commitment to innovative ethnographic methodologies provides a theoretically and empirically rich account of the commercialisation and sportification of parkour as marketisation of cool consumer identities that, rather than epitomising genuine forms of resistance, are hyper-conformist to the cultural and ideological values of consumerism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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