‘Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities
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‘Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities. / Pedersen, Henrik; Kremmer Pedersen, Line; Thing, Lone Friis.
In: European Journal for Sport and Society, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2018, p. 234-249.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - ‘Liquid running communities’ – an analysis of serious runners’ communities
AU - Pedersen, Henrik
AU - Kremmer Pedersen, Line
AU - Thing, Lone Friis
N1 - CURIS 2018 NEXS 233
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This study targets Serious Runners, who are redefining the term ‘running community’. The main focus is to investigate how the Serious Runners engage with each other within the new running communities and what they experience by belonging to them. Inspiration is drawn from Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity and community’ and abductive reasoning is used within the hermeneutical interpretation tradition and with a theory borne interpretation. In-depth interviews are conducted with runners from traditional and new urban running communities about their experiences of belonging. The results show that liquid modernity’s ‘peg’ communities act as bridges between contradictory desires and particularly between the need for individuality and community. The runners experience a ‘momentary’ community when training with others or joining ‘swarms’ of runners during competitions. Serious Runners challenge the dichotomy of running alone vs. organized running in clubs. The study introduces a model that draws on new forms of liquid ‘peg’ communities and identifies new types of communities referred to as ‘individualized running within communities’ and ‘jointly individualized running communities’. Further research is needed to better understand these new community types and to determine how activities could be organized to encourage their formation in the broader sports arena.
AB - This study targets Serious Runners, who are redefining the term ‘running community’. The main focus is to investigate how the Serious Runners engage with each other within the new running communities and what they experience by belonging to them. Inspiration is drawn from Bauman’s ‘liquid modernity and community’ and abductive reasoning is used within the hermeneutical interpretation tradition and with a theory borne interpretation. In-depth interviews are conducted with runners from traditional and new urban running communities about their experiences of belonging. The results show that liquid modernity’s ‘peg’ communities act as bridges between contradictory desires and particularly between the need for individuality and community. The runners experience a ‘momentary’ community when training with others or joining ‘swarms’ of runners during competitions. Serious Runners challenge the dichotomy of running alone vs. organized running in clubs. The study introduces a model that draws on new forms of liquid ‘peg’ communities and identifies new types of communities referred to as ‘individualized running within communities’ and ‘jointly individualized running communities’. Further research is needed to better understand these new community types and to determine how activities could be organized to encourage their formation in the broader sports arena.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Running
KW - Community
KW - Bauman
KW - Liquid modernity
KW - Sport sociology
U2 - 10.1080/16138171.2018.1491152
DO - 10.1080/16138171.2018.1491152
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 234
EP - 249
JO - European Journal for Sport and Society
JF - European Journal for Sport and Society
SN - 1613-8171
IS - 3
ER -
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