Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late-Capitalist City - An Ethnography - Thomas Raymen - Hardback Bog - Emerald Publishing Limited - 2018 -

Description

This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the paradox of parkour against a backdrop of late-capitalism.