Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introducing a Sociology of Snowboarding Bodies

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 1-19

3. Remembering the Snowboarding Body

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 20-45

4. Producing and Consuming the Snowboarding Body

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 46-75

5. Representing the Boarding Body: Discourse, Power, and the Snowboarding Media

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 76-108

6. Cultural Boarding Bodies: Status, Style, and Symbolic Capital

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 109-138

7. Female Boarding Bodies: Betties, Babes, and Bad-Asses

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 139-168

8. Male Boarding Bodies: Pleasure, Pain, and Performance

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 169-191

9. Transnational Boarding Bodies: Travel, Tourism, and Lifestyle Sport Migration

   • Holly Thorpe

   Pages 192-217

10. Sensual Snowboarding Bodies in Affective Spaces

    • Holly Thorpe

    Pages 218-247

11. Body Politics, Social Change, and the Future of Physical Cultural Studies

    • Holly Thorpe

    Pages 248-269

12. Back Matter

    Pages 270-313

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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, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

• childhood studies

"There is no other text that explores and reveals the complex nature of snowboarding culture in such depth. It must therefore be seen as a cutting-edge offering, not just in snowboarding subculture but in embodied theorising through multi-modes of data generation and multi-disciplinary social theorising . . . This book joins the large body of excellent qualitative work in the field of sport subculture, its complexities and how they can be scrutinised and revealed through theory. Its quality and breadth of theory together with its skilful application will ensure its worthy place on the reading lists of cultural studies students for many years to come." - Leisure Studies

• University of Waikato, New Zealand

  Holly Thorpe

HOLLY THORPE Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has published widely on the topics of sociology of sport, social theory, physical youth culture, gender, and extreme sports.