Parkour: Prostor,resistence a identita

Authors

  • Ondřej Raffel Západočeská univerzita v Plzni Autor

Keywords:

Parkour, transgresion, subculture, space, resistance, place, identity, danger, heterotopia

Abstract

This article deals with the Parkour subculture in relation to space. It focuses on the way traceurs (people who devote themselves to Parkour) resist the dominant order and how the identity of the traceurs is formed. The research is based on the participation of the observation by smaller groups of traceurs in a local context – in the town of Písek (Czech Republic). It also includes observation within the internet (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc.) where there are interactions with traceurs from the whole world. The article shows how traceurs resist dominant culture through specific perception and use of space and the transgressions of dangerous activities. They put a new meaning in the space where some meaning already is and conduct movements that are considered dangerous by the dominant society, but this resistance is not active, traceurs do not resist the dominant order intentionally; they try for only a certain coexistence with the dominant order. I have shown that entering a subculture is open to anyone. the identity itself is relatively free and is created by a specific perception of the space and through the places, which the traceurs transform.

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2019-01-10

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