Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

by Jeffrey L. Kidder

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813571952
• ISBN13: 9780813571959
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher