Studying Extreme Sports: Beyond the Core Participants  

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Donnelly, Michele

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 30 no. 2 (May 2006), page 219-224.
Topik: subculture; snowboarding; alternative sports
Fulltext: 219.pdf (71.5KB)

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Atrend among many examples of subcultural research on alternative sports, especially extreme sports, is to adopt certain theoretical and methodological approaches that have, to an extent, limited the research findings. The particular limitation I identify and discuss here is the failure to include, in these analyses, a whole range of subcultural participation and participants that exist beyond the forms of authentic participation and the core members that have constituted the primary focus of studies of extreme sports. Within this literature, assumptions are often made but not acknowledged and, specifically, assumptions about the history of subcultures that are drawn from a number of theoretical traditions, but particularly from the Birmingham School (a group of researchers working in or around the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies during the 1970s). The Birmingham School, broadly conceived (and overly generalized), did the following: (a) addressed subcultures—British, spectacular, working-class, male subcultures—as problem-solving formations and concentrated on issues of resistance or opposition and style; (b) assumed a separation from commercial processes and homogeneity; (c) and reinforced masculine connotations of subculture.

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