Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- 25977936
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Emerald
- ISBN
- 9781787438125
- Open access status
- -
- 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
- Yes
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- At 200 pages, this single authored research-based monograph far exceeds the length of a journal article and is informed by immersive participant observation of a specific parkour community over two years. The author also observed parkour communities throughout the UK and Europe. Observations and informal conversations were blended with in-depth biographical interviews with over 30 freerunners, and ‘walking interviews’ with a dozen security guards. The ethnographic data is combined with highly contemporary social and criminological theory in order to move beyond the tropes of resistance and explain the paradox of parkour against the backdrop of late capitalism.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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