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Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Holly Thorpe

    1. University of Waikato, New Zealand

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Part of the book series: Global Culture and Sport Series (GCS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 1-19

  3. Remembering the Snowboarding Body

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 20-45

  4. Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 46-75

  5. Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power, and the Snowboarding Media

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 76-108

  6. Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style, and Symbolic Capital

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 109-138

  7. Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes, and Bad-Asses

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 139-168

  8. Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain, and Performance

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 169-191

  9. Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism, and Lifestyle Sport Migration

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 192-217

  10. Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 218-247

  11. Body Politics, Social Change, and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies

    • Holly Thorpe
    Pages 248-269

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 270-313
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About this book

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

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"There is no other text that explores and reveals the complex nature of snowboarding culture in such depth. It must therefore be seen as a cutting-edge offering, not just in snowboarding subculture but in embodied theorising through multi-modes of data generation and multi-disciplinary social theorising . . . This book joins the large body of excellent qualitative work in the field of sport subculture, its complexities and how they can be scrutinised and revealed through theory. Its quality and breadth of theory together with its skilful application will ensure its worthy place on the reading lists of cultural studies students for many years to come." - Leisure Studies

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Waikato, New Zealand

    Holly Thorpe

About the author

HOLLY THORPE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on the topics of sociology of sport, social theory, physical youth culture, gender, and extreme sports.

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