Action sports and the Olympic Games : past, present, future /: past, present, future. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Belinda Wheaton, Holly Thorpe.
• Authors: Wheaton, Belinda, 1966-; Thorpe, Holly
• Contents: 1. Introducing Action Sports and the Olympic Games 2. Mapping Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations 3. Researching the Action Sports-Olympic Games Assemblage: A Longitudinal and Multi-Method Approach 4. The History of Action sports and the Olympics Games 5. Agenda 2020 and the Tokyo Announcement: Initial Responses and Debates in Action Sport Cultures 6. Action Sports and the Politics of Governance 7. The Action Sports Industry: A Shifting Landscape 8. Skateboarding, the Olympics and Flexible Opposition: The Sportisation of the Anti-Sport 9. Surfing’s Paradoxical Journey from Alternative Lifestyle to Olympic Sport 10. Developing Pathways to Tokyo: National Differences in the Professionalisation of Self-Governing Action Sports 11. Action Sports and the Opportunities and Challenges for Gender Equity 12. Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 796.48; Olympics; Extreme sports
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351029520; 9781351029537; 9781351029544
• Related ISBNs: 9781138492851
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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