Thorpe, Holly
Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures
1. Introduction: Transnational Mobilities and Action Sport Cultures: Conceptual, Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
Holly Thorpe
Part I. Transnational Action Sport Cultural Networks
2. Producing Transnational Networks: Action Sport Companies, Media and Events
Holly Thorpe
3. Digital Media and the Transnational Imaginary: Virtual Memorialization of Global Action Sport Stars
Holly Thorpe
Part II. Action Sport Migration and Transnational Mobilities
4. Corporeal Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures: Tourists, Professionals and Seasonal Migrants
Holly Thorpe
5. Pleasure, Play and Everyday Politics in Transnational Action Sport Destinations
Holly Thorpe
6. Transnational Action Sport Career Migration: Reflections From Home and Away
Holly Thorpe
Part III. Action Sport (Im)mobilities in Disrupted and Conflicted Spaces
7. Action Sports and Natural Disaster Immobilities: Arrhythmic Experiences in Christchurch, New Zealand
Holly Thorpe
8. The Emergence of Action Sports in the Middle East: Imagining New Mobilities with Parkour in Gaza
Holly Thorpe
9. Transnational Connections and Transformation: Action Sport for Development and Peace Building
Holly Thorpe
Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Social Policy, Migration, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Media, Globalization
- Author(s)
- Thorpe, Holly
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series
- Page amount
- 343 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230390744
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-35136-7