Mountain Biking, Culture and Society

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-03-242191-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

This book represents the first critical examination of the social, cultural, and political significance of mountain biking in contemporary societies.

Starting from the premise that cultures of mountain biking are diverse, complex, and at times contradictory, this book offers practical and theoretical insights into a range of embodied, material, and socio-technical relationships. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary team of researchers, artists, and (Indigenous) community members with backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, community development, and coaching, chapters critically unpack the complex and contested nature of mountain biking identities, bodies, environments, and inequalities within specific settings. Via a range of international case studies from England, Scotland, America, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa, authors highlight how tensions and conflicts in the world of mountain biking initiate important conversations about climate change, colonialism, discrimination, and land-use.

This is essential reading for academics and practitioners in sociology, cultural studies, sport-for-development, and human geography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cherrington, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Radsport, Radrennen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: mountain bike culture as a ‘structure of feeling’

JIM CHERRINGTON

PART I

Mountain biking identities

1 Exploring mountain bike coaches’ perceptions towards learning to coach through story completion: coaching happily ever after?

THOMAS M. LEEDER AND LEE C. BEAUMONT

2 Evaluating competitiveness as a personality trait among a sample of mountain bikers

KIEREN MCEWAN, NEIL WESTON, AND PAUL GORCZYNSKI

3 The motivations, identities, and environmental sensibilities of contemporary e-mountain bike users: the people behind the power

LESLEY INGRAM-SILLS

PART II

Mountain biking bodies

4 A sociology of how things go wrong in mountain biking: falling into place

MIKE LLOYD

5 An exploration into the sensory experience of pain in mountain biking

BENJAMIN MORELAND

6 Encounters with mountain bike trail centre spaces: experience landscapes

DAVID GIBBS AND LEWIS HOLLOWAY

PART III

Mountain biking environments

7 Downhill MTB, digital media, and DIY urbanism: riding with Red Bull

JACOB J. BUSTAD AND OLIVER J. C. RICK

8 Sustainable mountain bike trails: towards a holistic approach

TOM CAMPBELL

9 No dig, no ride: repairing and caring for DIY-designed mountain bike and BMX trails

LIAM HEALY

10 Air pollution as ‘slow violence’ during multi-day mountain bike trips

CLARE NATTRESS

PART IV

The cultural politics of mountain biking

11 Women and barriers to participation in mountain biking: the impossible climb

LOUISE BORDELON

12 Hegemonic masculinity and sexualisation in mountain bike trail naming practices: what’s in a name?

BENJAMIN MORELAND, ALICE LEMKES, JENNI MYERS, AND JACK REED

13 Portrayals of ideals of authenticity in mountain biking multimedia: escaping to find yourself

JEFF R. WARREN AND JOHN REID-HRESKO

14 Reflections on trails, mountain biking, and indigenous-settler relations in British Columbia: ride, (re)connect, and (re)build

TAVIS SMITH, PATRICK LUCAS, TOM EUSTACHE, AND THOMAS SCHOEN

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Cherrington is Senior Lecturer in Physical Activity, Sport, and Health at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research explores how identity, bodies, knowledges, and objects are materialised in/through everyday life, with much of his recent work dedicated to investigating the socio-historical, socio-technical, and onto-political conditions of mountain biking.