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Articles

Governing bodies or managing freedom? Subcultural struggles, national sport systems and the glocalised institutionalisation of parkour

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Pages 89-105 | Received 18 Dec 2015, Accepted 25 Jan 2017, Published online: 08 Mar 2017

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