Parkour, Masculinity, and the City

• Autores: Jeffrey L. Kidder
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 30, Nº. 1, 2013, págs. 1-23
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Parkour is a new, and increasingly popular, sport in which individuals athletically and artistically negotiate obstacles found in the urban environment. In this article, I position parkour as a performance of masculinity involving spatial appropriation. Through ethnographic data I show how young men involved in the sport use the city (both the built environment and the people within it) as a structural resource for the construction and maintenance of gender identities. The focus of my research highlights the performance of gender as a spatialized process.