This important new study examines the changing place and meaning of lifestyle sports–
parkour, surfing, skateboarding, kite-surfing and others–and asks whether they continue to …

This article contributes to recent debates between supporters of the concept of hegemonic
masculinity, as exemplified by RW Connell, and a new generation of gender scholars, as to …

This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding
culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle …

The article explores the premarital all-male stag tour made by groups of British men to an
Eastern European city as a homosocial bonding ritual. Homosocial groups help sustain …

Parkour is a new sport based on athletically and artistically overcoming urban obstacles. In
this paper, I argue that the real world practices of parkour are dialectically intertwined with …

The purpose of this study was to explore the causal relationships among recreational
involvement, flow experience, and well-being, as well as the mediating role of flow …

This study explores the relationship between serious leisure and recreation involvement by
treating the former as a type of personal characteristic. Questionnaires were distributed to …

The use of digital video cameras to conduct research has proven to be effective at recording,
stimulating recall, evoking and enacting experiential knowledge cognitive, spatial, corporeal …

Spanning the disciplines of sociology, history, media and cultural studies, and popular
culture, this book offers a historical exploration of Australian masculine tropes and an …

Abstract This Research Insight piece examines how southern California recreational women
surfers experience, cope with and contest their marginalized status within the male …