Contemporary Meanings of Endurance: An Interdisciplinary Approach

This book critically examines the concept of endurance from various perspectives, exploring how it relates to resilience, perseverance, and everyday life. It also focuses on embodied experiences of endurance, such as endurance running, walking, and performances, and uncovers practices, environments, and discourses in which endurance is applied and manifested. It is of interest to scholars in movement sciences, sports studies, mobilities, leisure studies, and resilience studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 162 pages
Publication date: 09 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive exploration delves into the multifaceted concept of endurance, examining it from various theoretical, conceptual, methodological, and empirical perspectives. The first part of the book takes a close look at endurance, exploring its connections to concepts such as resilience, perseverance, and perseverance. By examining how these concepts intersect and diverge, the book provides a deeper understanding of what constitutes endurance. Furthermore, endurance is reimagined as a mundane aspect of everyday life, shedding its previous associations with exceptionalism or heroism.

The latter part of the book focuses on embodied experiences of endurance, specifically examining endurance running, walking, and physical performances. The diverse contributions in this section explore the meanings, values, and attributes that people ascribe to endurance in various socio-cultural contexts. The book uncovers practices, environments, and discourses in which endurance is applied and manifested, ranging from drought-affected communities in rural Australia to professional endurance runners in Ethiopia, as well as migrants in Greece and performance acts in domestic spaces in the United Kingdom and beyond.

This book is of immense interest to scholars in the fields of movement sciences, sports studies, mobilities, leisure studies, and resilience studies. It offers valuable insights into the complexities of endurance, its cultural and social significance, and its potential for promoting well-being and resilience in diverse contexts.

Weight: 470g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032343846