CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Murray, Joseph Bartholomew |
|---|---|
| Title | Knowing Obstacles: Urban Dialogues in Parkour Practice |
| Summary | This paper inquires into the newly emergent urban discipline of parkour and its participants (traceurs). Addressing the spectacular depictions of the discipline, the work seeks to provide a more nuanced understanding of the multi-layered global phenomena and assert the highly formalized and structured composition of parkour practice. The author relies upon theoretical framing and his own ethnographic accounts to present the underlying structures that have helped disseminate parkour and form a global community of traceurs. By engaging the vehicles of parkour transmission, learning processes and place making activities the paper also seeks to posit a dialectical relationship between the built environment and individual actors as creative partners in the everyday practice of the parkour discipline. |
| Supervisor | Dafinger, Andreas and Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/murray_joseph.pdf |
Visit the CEU Library.
© 2007-2021, Central European University