Quantified Cyclists and Stratified Motives Explorations Into Age-Group Road Cycling as Cultural Performance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3070133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Groth (0000-0003-2022-8806, University of Duisburg-Essen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnologia Europaea (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0425-4597 • E-ISSN: 1604-3030 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.16995/ee.1120 |
| OpenAlex | W3094276179 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Building on ethnographic work with German recreational cyclists, this paper analyzes competitive motives in hobby races and training. Laying open the construction of non-competitive recreational sports as part of the dichotomy between work and leisure, the analysis turns to competitive stimuli in performative experience and examines their effects. These range from short-term efforts in races and group rides to the structuring of training and race schedules. Looking at how motives fluctuate between different layers of competitiveness, three main developments and currents influencing road cycling are observed: the popularity and possibility of big urban events, the increase of quantification, the transparency and availability of data and knowledge, and the permeability of life worlds to competitive norms
Aesthetics · Business · Cycling · Ethnography · Geography · German · Hobby · Performative utterance · Political science · Popularity · Recreation · Sociology · Anthropology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sociology and Education Studies · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Marketing
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2018 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |