The Professionalization of Action Sports: The Changing Roles of Athletes, Industry and Media

Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization, and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers the social, political, economic and organizational dynamics of their professionalization.

Author: Guillaume Dumont
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01/29/2024
Pages: 126
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.29d
ISBN: 9781032204048

About the Author

Guillaume Dumont is Assistant Professor at OCE Research Center, emlyon Business School, France. He is the author of Professional Climber: Creative Work on the Sponsorship Labor Market (2018), exploring ethnographically the working lives of professional rock climbers in North America and Europe.

Holly Thorpe is Professor of Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is the author of Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice (2011) and Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures (2014), and co-author of Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future (2021).