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The aesthetics of risk. A study of surfing

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posted on 2024-10-28, 04:07 authored by MJA Stranger
A combination of participant-observation, survey research, interviews, and semiotics was used to examine risk-taking in Australian surfing. It is argued that: (1) aestheticization facilitates risk-taking in the pursuit of an ecstatic, transcendent experience; and (2) the surfing aesthetic involves a postmodern incarnation of the sublime that distorts rational risk assessment. The study also analyzes the role of the surfing media in constructing and reinforcing images of the sublime. © ISSA and SAGE Publications.

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Publication title

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volume

34

Issue

3

Pagination

265-276

ISSN

0074-7769

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Sage

Publication status

  • Published

Place of publication

London, Thousand Oaks, CA, New Delhi

Socio-economic Objectives

130603 Recreation and leisure activities (excl. sport and exercise)

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