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1. The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports

   By Belinda Wheaton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports – parkour, surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and others – and asks whether they continue to pose a challenge to the meaning and experience of ‘sport’, physical culture and identity in the twenty-first...

   To Be Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Consumption and Representation of Lifestyle Sports

   Edited by Belinda Wheaton

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Since their emergence in the 1960s, lifestyle sports (also referred to as action sport, extreme sports, adventure sports) have experienced unprecedented growth both in terms of participation and in their increased visibility across public and private space. book seeks to explore the changing...

   To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Understanding Lifestyle Sport

   Consumption, Identity and Difference

   Edited by Belinda Wheaton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Sport

   The past decade has seen a tremendous growth in the popularity of activities like skateboarding and snowboarding; sports that have been labelled as 'extreme' or 'lifestyle' and which embody 'alternative' sporting values such as anti-competitiveness, anti-regulation, high risk and personal freedom....

   Published August 25th 2004 by Routledge