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dc.contributor.authorThorpe, Holly Aysha
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-15T21:11:30Z
dc.date.available2012-02-15T21:11:30Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationThorpe, H. (2012). ‘Sex, drugs and snowboarding’: (il)legitimate definitions of taste and lifestyle in a physical youth culture. Leisure Studies, 31(1), 33-51.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6024
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the hedonistic social interactions and lifestyles embraced by many contemporary physical youth cultural participants via the case of snowboarding. Drawing upon an array of primary and secondary sources collected over seven years, I present a three-part analysis of the hedonistic party lifestyle, alcohol and drug consumption (for both pleasure and performance), and the hyper-sexuality, at the core of the snowboarding culture. Engaging Bourdieu’s theory of distinction, and particularly his concepts of field, practice and taste, in dialogue with my empirical evidence, I reveal the definitions of pleasure and the hedonistic snowboarding lifestyle as highly contested. While many cultural participants are complicit to hierarchical and/or violent attempts to regulate the dominant tastes and practices within the snowboarding field, others are engaging in an array of symbolic and embodied struggles to (re)define meanings of ‘pleasure’ in the snowboarding lifestyle and après snow culture more broadly.en_NZ
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_NZ
dc.relation.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02614367.2011.596556en_NZ
dc.subjectlifestyleen_NZ
dc.subjectyouth cultureen_NZ
dc.subjectsnowboardingen_NZ
dc.subjectBourdieuen_NZ
dc.subjectpleasureen_NZ
dc.title‘Sex, drugs and snowboarding’: (il)legitimate definitions of taste and lifestyle in a physical youth cultureen_NZ
dc.typeJournal Articleen_NZ
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02614367.2011.596556en_NZ
dc.relation.isPartOfLeisure Studiesen_NZ
pubs.begin-page1en_NZ
pubs.elements-id36298
pubs.end-page19en_NZ
pubs.issue1en_NZ
pubs.volumeonlineen_NZ


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