Hall, Jenny ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5200-4308 (2022) Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City: An Ethnography. Book Review, J. Hall. Nordic Sports Studies.

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Abstract

Thomas Raymen challenges us to consider how consumer capitalism sits at the heart of even our most transgressive counter-cultural sports and urban leisure activities. The objective of the book is to provide insight into the spatial dynamics of parkour’s practice in the city, but also into the role of parkour in the wider lives of traceurs (parkour athletes) to explain the complex position it holds at the nexus between spatially illegitimate ‘deviance’ and ‘legitimate’ commodified leisure. Raymen asks why parkour is excluded from urban spaces despite conforming to consumer-capitalist commodification through the development of consumer goods, such as fee-paying parkour air-gyms, use in advertising campaigns, television programmes, films, and associated merchandise. The volume makes an important contribution to criminology and leisure to trouble the widely held perception that leisure is good (Rojek, 2010). Raymen brings into view how harm is hidden in the things we seek and love the most in our contemporary consumer leisure cultures.

Item Type:	Other
Status:	Published
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare > HV6001-7220.5 Criminology
School/Department:	York Business School
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/6240

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