Triathlon, suffering and exciting significance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5841346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Atkinson (0000-0002-4378-0823, Loughborough University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 165-180 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leisure Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02614360801902216 |
| OpenAlex | W2097225962 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this article, I examine how triathletes learn to physically manage, socially perform and individually reflect upon the endurance sport of triathlon as a microcosm of the 'civilising process'. Elias's particular conceptualisation of habitus is centrally utilised to explain why, at this particular point in civilising processes, more men and women in factions of the Canadian middle class quest for 'exciting significance' through gruelling endurance sports like triathlon (swim-bike-run competitions). Pain and suffering narratives gathered from 62 participants in Canadian triathlon are analysed alongside ethnographic data collected over a three-year period in Ontario, Canada. Specifically addressed is how triathletes come together as a mutually recognised 'pain community' of like-minded actors, and how they learn to relish physical and mental suffering in the sport
Habitus · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
Estereotipos y medios de comunicación
In search of optimum stimulation at sport events
New media and authentication of sport tourism place
Healing wounds
The Embodied Experiences of Injured Ultra-Runners
Elias’s Contribution to the Sociology of the Body
Research on the run
Distance runners in a dys-appearance state – Reconceptualizing the perception of pain and suffering in times of bodily distress
Techniques without Names - Methodological Provocations from a Judo Dojo
Narratives of despair and loss
Embodied experiences of injured endurance runners
Reflections from the ‘Strava-sphere’
‘It has to hurt’
‘Ploughing on’
Talking about and coping with pain and suffering in ultrarunning as moral language
Bodies as Arenas of Experimentation
The Impact of Family Life and Marital Status on the Motivations of Ultramarathoners
Cricket, violence and social conflict
Ordinary, Adequate, and Crazy
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking
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Masculinities, gender relations and leisure studies
Leisure and health – critical commentary
Gain by losing
Parkour, Masculinity, and the City
When an Ironman Triathlon Isn’t Hard Enough
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Embodiment in Active Sport Tourism
The body experience of the triathlete
Running Rotterdam
Competing priorities as constraints in event travel careers
The rise and fall of Adrian Fenty, Mayor-Triathlete
Research note
Becoming a long-distance runner – deriving pleasure and contentment in times of pain and bodily distress
Auto-ethnography in leisure studies
The influence of triathletes’ serious leisure traits on sport constraints, involvement, and participation
Festivalised sports-based leisure and gendered embodiment
Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners
Ultimate Fighting Championship Fans
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The Ambivalence of Ultra Endurance Sports for Athletes’ Partners
A Qualitative Exploration of Participant Motives Among Committed Amateur Triathletes
Perspectives of Endurance Athletes' Spouses
Costs and Perseverance in Serious Leisure Careers
Enacting Masculinities in a Contemporary Subcultural Sporting Event
Family Life and Marathon Running
You’ve branded yourself like a cow and shifted yourself into a different class”
Theorizing physical activity health promotion
Pleasure and the pain cave
El running como terapia de la felicidad en la Argentina contemporánea
Ultra culture-ultra reality
Triathlon Bodies in Motion
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Exotic endurance
Governing Homelessness through Running
Suspect of Smiles
[Un]Comfortable in My Own Skin
Becoming and being a masters athlete
Let's face it, it's not a healthy sport
Running between the raindrops
Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Health and the running body
Organisations, practices, actors, and events
Talking Your Self into It
Breaking Coaching's Rules
Estranged Labor, Habitus, and Verstehen in the Rise of Extreme Endurance Sports
Endurance Work
Male Athletes and the Cult(ure) of Thinness in Sport
Running Cultures
The Making of High Performance Athletes
Sport, Professionalism and Pain
Distinction
Distinction
Running Cultures
Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process
The Sociology of Norbert Elias
The Time of the Tribes
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Bodies, Sportscultures and Societies
Toward an Integration of Gender into Bourdieu’s Concept of Cultural Capital
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Playing with Fire
Bodywork as a Moral Imperative
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Bowling Alone
The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker
Playing Symbolically with Death in Extreme Sports
Sport and social class
Distinctions in the Stands
The Paradox of Social Class and Sports Involvement
Classism in Sport
Edgework
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,67 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |