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Immersion

Karen Throsby

2016216 pagesabout 3–5 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Manchester University Press · ENGISBN 9781526100474
  • 2016Manchester University Press · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9781526100467
  • 2019Manchester University Press · 216 pagesISBN 9781526139610
  • 2016Manchester University Press · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780719099625

Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health.

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