Lifestyle Sports and Identities
This book examines how different stages of adult life affect participation in lifestyle sports and in the construction of identity. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, it explores how gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and location, in conjunction with age and stage in career, affect lifestyle sport practices and meanings.
Tracing engagement with lifestyle sport across the lifecourse, from young adult to older age, the book examines the concepts of authenticity and identity in subcultural and alternative sports, exploring how individuals develop lifestyle sport identities, maintain authentic identities, and how they manage those identities as older adults. It presents a range of fascinating, cutting-edge case studies from around the world, covering sports as diverse as climbing, surfing, mountain biking, skateboarding and roller derby, and considers key contemporary issues such as professionalisation, sports labor, and digital technology. It also highlights political tensions and shifts that shape the identities of lifestyle sport communities.
This is essential reading for anybody with a serious interest in alternative or lifestyle sports, the relationships between sport and wider society, or the development of subcultures and cultural identity.
Tyler Dupont is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Oneonta, USA.
Becky Beal is a Professor of Kinesiology at California State University, East Bay, USA.
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Lifestyle Sports and Identities
Subcultural Careers Through the Life Course
Edited by Tyler Dupont and Becky Beal
First published 2022
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Names: Dupont, Tyler, editor. | Beal, Becky, editor.
Title: Lifestyle sports and identities: subcultural careers through the life course / edited by Tyler Dupont and Becky Beal.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, [2022] |
Series: Routledge focus on sport, culture and society | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021006982 (print) | LCCN 2021006983 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367355999 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032052397 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429340505 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Physically active people--Identity. | Sports--Psychological aspects. | Sports--Sex differences. | Identity (Psychology) | Aging--Psychological aspects.
Classification: LCC GV706.4.L55 2022 (print) | LCC GV706.4 (ebook) | DDC 796.01/9--dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction
TYLER DUPONT AND BECKY BEAL
Part I
Entering a Career and Forging a Place in the Activity During Midlife
Becoming a Mountain Biker
KAREN MCCORMACK
The Construction of Place Identity via Shua Jie in Public Spaces of Guangzhou, China
MINHUI LIN
The Objectification of Self in Material Culture: Identity Anchors in Jeep Culture
MICHAEL S. ROSENBAUM
Gender and Climbing Style: Dynos and Heel Hooks in the Gym
JENNIFER WIGGLESWORTH
Maneuvering Microaggressions and Contesting Cultural Beliefs: An Intersectional Examination of Mexican American Surfers' Experiences in Southern California Surf Culture
CASSIE COMLEY
Constructing Queer-Skater Identities: Failure and Futurity
BETHANY GECKLE AND SALLY SHAW
Part II
Maintaining a Career During Midlife
Identity and Wellbeing in Older Skateboarders
PAUL OCONNOR
The Working Lives of Professional Rock Climbers: An Ethnographic Exploration of Multilayered Labor
GUILLAUME DUMONT
Big Wave Surfing: Fun, Group Cohesion, and Group Identity
UGO CORTE
BMX in China: Subculture Identity, Family, Career
YIYIN DING
BMX Freestyle Cycling and Identity
WADE NELSON
Part III
Negotiating Careers as Older Adults
Ageing and Nature-Based Sport: Sensing, Experiencing, and Becoming
BARBARA HUMBERSTONE
Seniors, Lifestyle, and Hobbyist Sport
ROBERT A. STEBBINS
Lifestyle Sport Identity and National Identity: Thoughts on the Chinese Government's (re)Creation of Dama Image
HO HON LEUNG
Gra(c)(t)efully Ageing in Late Capitalist Sport: Coping with the Inevitable in Action Pursuits
ROBERT E. RINEHART
Part IV
Shifts in the Fields
Conventional Culture, Subcultural Institutions, and Subcultural Careers as Backdrops to Identity Work in Singapore's Esports Scene
J. PATRICK WILLIAMS AND VICTORIA PUAY RU CHUA
Skateboarding in the Iron Cage: An Exploratory Examination of Professional Skate Identities in Street League Skateboarding
TYLER DUPONT AND L. DUGAN NICHOLS
From Spectacle to Sport: Shifting Authenticity within Modern Roller Derby
