Sailing and social class / Alan O'Connor.
This book explores the sociology of sailing and yachting. Drawing on original research, and employing a theoretical framework based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, the book argues that sailing is, still, an upper-middle-class activity that has much to tell us about the wider sociology of leisure and...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Sailing with Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu
- Sailing tours: on the Irish coast
- Sailing and social class
- Social class and classification struggles
- Symbolic violence in sailing
- Empire and the sailing imaginary
- The politics of sailing
- Conclusion: Is Tahiti on your bucket list?