Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 12 May 2020
- ISBN 9780367374501
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 260 g
- Language English 111
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Short description:
This book revisits the definition of extreme sports and adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of ?no fear? in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.
MoreLong description:
Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely to do with risking one?s life, then this confusion will continue to exist. However, an in-depth examination of the phenomenology of the extreme sport experience yields a much more complex picture.
This book revisits the definition of extreme sports as those activities where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in death. Extreme sports are not necessarily synonymous with risk and participation may not be about risk-taking. Participants report deep inner transformations that influence world views and meaningfulness, feelings of coming home and authentic integration as well as a freedom beyond the everyday. Phenomenologically, these experiences have been interpreted as transcendent of time, other, space and body. Extreme sport participation therefore points to a more potent, life-enhancing endeavour worthy of further investigation. This book adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the assumed relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of "No Fear" in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.
This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in Sports Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Tourism, Leisure Studies and the practical applications of phenomenology.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. Extreme Sports
2. Principals of Phenomenology
3. Translating Principles into Practice
4. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports: An Hermeneutic Phenomenological Methodology
5. The Risk Hypothesis
6. The Death-Wish Hypothesis
7. The ?No Fear? Hypothesis
8. Experience of Transformation
9. Becoming Who You Are
10. Experience of Freedom
11. Evoking the Ineffable
12. Returning to the Life-World of Extreme Sport
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