Style Matters
Explorations of Bodies, Whiteness, and Identity in Rock Climbing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12082392 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce R Erickson (0009-0007-0322-9504, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-396 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Sport Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0741-1235 • E-ISSN: 1543-2785 |
| Publisher | Human Kinetics (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1123/ssj.22.3.373 |
| OpenAlex | W1571928829 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
The concern for style in climbing has been a long-standing debate in the climbing community, ranging from discussions around the politics of bolting routes to what exactly constitutes a first ascent. These debates, when read through Lacanian psychoanalysis, illustrate a larger concern for the construction of identity within rock climbing. Style becomes a strategy of differentiation that works through the signifier of whiteness to promise wholeness to the identity of the climber. Descriptions of the events in August of 2000 when four American climbers on a North Face expedition in Kyrgyzstan were taken hostage by members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan illustrate that whiteness only covers up deficiencies in the subject and creates a constant state of insecurity. Through the concept of whiteness as a logic of difference, it is possible to understand how this event illustrates the construction of whiteness, and specifically, the moments when whiteness fails to provide being to the subject
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Climbing · Face (sociological concept · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Style (visual arts · Subject (documents · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Law
Lifestyle climbing
Femininity, Body Size, and (Mis)Fitting in Rock Climbing Culture
The (re)production of climbing space
Seeing Your Sporting Body
Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”
Evaluating climbing interventions for Parkinson's disease
I’m a Red River local”
They all have a different vibe”
Scaling hope
Alienation and anxiety in tourism motivation
White Men Can't Jump
The woman is perfected
White Power and Sport
Lifestyle Mobilities
Going to Brazil
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |