Details

Subject(s)

• Belonging (Social psychology) [Browse]
• Sports—Sociological aspects [Browse]
• Long distance swimming [Browse]

Series

New ethnographies. [More in this series]

Summary note

Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• Acknowledgements
• Series editor's foreword
• Introduction
• Marathon swimming
• Aquatic sociology
• Immersion
• Notes
• I Becoming and belonging
• 1 Becoming
• Techniques of the body
• Sensory transformations
• Conclusion
• 2 Unexpected pleasures
• Recoding suffering as pleasure
• Novel pleasures
• 3 Authentic swimming
• Brittany King
• Diana Nyad
• The arbitrariness of rules
• Respect
• 4 Making it count
• Bearing witness
• 'What gets measured, gets improved'
• 'There's no marching band…'
• II The good body
• 5 Who are you swimming for?
• Charitable swimming
• 'It just makes perfect sense…'
• Win-win
• Swimming to swim
• 6 Gendering swimming
• 'We're all just swimmers'
• Making gender matter
• Gendered lives, gendered leisure
• Resisting gender
• A feminist politics of swimming?
• 7 Heroic fatness
• Heroic fatness
• Unsettling heroic fatness
• 8 Failing bodies
• Injured bodies
• 'After all, you're doing your bit to stay healthy'
• DNF
• References
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-5261-1497-6
• 1-5261-0046-0

OCLC

981859734

Doi

• 10.7765/9781526100467

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