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Abstract
In this paper, I draw on ethnographic data collected among Ashtanga yoga practitioners in Canada and fell runners in the United Kingdom as a means of discussing the lived phenomenological experience of ‘scapelands’, and post-sport lifestyles.Footnote 1 The men and women with whom I participate in these athletic ‘heterotopias’ share incredibly similar penchants for being projected into athletic contexts of existential throwness as a response to late-modern boundary-crossing tendencies.Footnote2 In particular, they share preferences for entire physical cultural styles of life which consciously subvert the idea that health, movement and athletics are merely technological or rational modernist ‘things’. As interpreted through the lens of intertwined post-structuralist theories in this paper, fell-running and Ashtanga practitioners purposefully immerse themselves into the loosely defined wilderness of the outdoors, or wilderness of the meditative mind. Á la Foucault, their participation in the respective sporting scapelands becomes a lifestyle technique for engaging alternative ethics of self care in boundary crossing, and boundary imploding, societies.Footnote3
Notes
1 CitationLyotard, ‘Scapeland’.
2 CitationFoucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’.
3 CitationFoucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’
4 CitationHardt and Negri, Multitude.
5 CitationBeck, Risk Society.
6 CitationJameson, Postmodernism; CitationBorgmann, Crossing the Postmodern Divide.
7 Beck, Risk Society.
8 CitationGiddens, Modernity and Self Identity.
9 CitationLash, Another Modernity.
10 CitationChaney, Cultural Turn.
11 CitationAndrews, Sport-Commerce-Culture; CitationAppadurai, Modernity at Large; CitationHannerz, Transnational Connections.
12 CitationSpivak, ‘Can The Subaltern Speak’.
13 CitationBaudrillard, Simulation and Simulacra.
14 CitationMuggleton, Inside Subculture.
15 CitationStraw, ‘Systems of Articulation’.
16 CitationLash, Another Modernity.
17 CitationPronger, Body Fascism.
18 CitationHeidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’.
19 CitationWheaton, Understanding Lifestyle Sport.
20 Pronger, Body Fascism.
21 Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’; Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’.
22 Wheaton, Understanding Lifestyle Sport.
23 CitationAtkinson, Battleground.
24 CitationBeal, ‘Disqualifying the Official’.
25 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’.
26 Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’.
27 Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’.
28 Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’, 212.
29 Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’
30 Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’
31 CitationStebbins, Exploratory Research.
32 CitationGubrium and Holstein, New Language.
33 Pronger, Body Fascism.
34 Pronger, Body Fascism
35 CitationHebdige, Subculture.
36 Atkinson, Battleground.
37 CitationStrauss, Positioning Yoga.
38 CitationLoland, ‘Art of Concealment’.
39 CitationLoland, ‘Art of Concealment’
40 Atkinson, Battleground; CitationAtkinson and Young, Deviance and Social Control.
41 Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces’.
42 Lyotard, ‘Scapeland’.
43 Giddens, Modernity and Self-Identity; CitationBauman, Liquid Life.
44 CitationAskwith, Feet in the Clouds.
45 CitationDunning, Sport Matters.
46 CitationHeidegger, Being and Time; CitationDerrida, Of Grammatology.
47 Derrida, Of Grammatology.
48 Atkinson, Battleground.
49 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’.
50 CitationSuzuki, Sacred Balance.
51 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’.
52 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’
53 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’
54 Heidegger, ‘Question Concerning Technology’
55 Suzuki, Sacred Balance.