{"product_id":"parkour-and-the-city-jeffrey-l-kidder-9780813571959","title":"Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eParkour and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 danger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Parkour's modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour's dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as \"traceurs\" or \"freerunners\") reject a \"daredevil\" label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety--rather than a \"pushing the edge\" ethos normally associated with extreme sports. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey L. Kidder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813571952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813571959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 6.06w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2017","brand":"Jeffrey L. Kidder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44491382030591,"sku":"9780813571959","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_add43880-9f12-4df4-a6f2-6a4e4e587c19.jpg?v=1699450877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/parkour-and-the-city-jeffrey-l-kidder-9780813571959","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}