Running in place

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8104072
AutoresRebecca Sheehan (0000-0003-2818-1563, Oklahoma State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen6
Número3
Páginas245-265
Fecha de publicación2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468797607076673
OpenAlexW2169624964
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas22

In this article, relying on participant observation and personal experiences, I show how tourism and play come together in road races like the Crescent City Classic in New Orleans and explain some implications of these intersections. I reveal how adult play in the Classic enables participants to engage corporeally with images of the city as tourist place. I seek to elucidate qualities of corporeal adult play in the event of the Crescent City Classic road race that form a means through which we understand, perform, and shape self and city. In these ways, other social practices connected to play and tourism become evident, destabilized, and reinforced. My aim also is to show how what we think or envision and what we do intertwine and how various social practices are embedded within each other

Aesthetics · Art · Event (particle physics · Race (biology · Sense of place · Social science · Social worlds · Sociology · Tourism · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts