Transnational mobilities in Snowboarding Culture: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Migration

Holly Thorpe

Department of Sport and Leisure Studies, School of Education, University of Waikato

2012

Routledge, Mobilities; 2012, 1-29, iFirst article

Holly Thorpe, PhD

Senior Lecturer, Department of Sport and Leisure Studies

Faculty of Education

University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

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Drawing on global ethnographic methods conducted in six countries over seven years, this paper offers the first in-depth examination of the transnational flows and corporeal mobilities in the contemporary physical culture of snowboarding. Focusing on the travel and migration experiences of various snowboarders (that is tourists, professional athletes and lifestyle sports migrants), and engaging work by human geographers and others, as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s key concepts of field, capital and habitus, this papers reveals fresh insights into the lived transnationalism and global migration of contemporary youth by the ‘action’, ‘alternative’ or ‘extreme’ sports economy.

Keywords:

Youth culture, action sport, travel, lifestyle migration, snowboarding

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Qualitative

International

High performance, Outdoor Recreation, Sport

Young People

Outdoors

Amateur, Mountains, Non-organised, Organised, Professional, Semi-professional

Impacts- social, Participation, Performance, Professionals, Tourism

Snowboarding

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February 20, 2013