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Offers a comprehensive socio-cultural and historical analysis of the fitness culture. This title conceptualizes fitness as a field within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made on the individual body that characterize our era.

Lacking other spaces to call their own, many young people turn to shopping malls as sites for hanging out. However, adolescents must negotiate several obstacles that stem from their ambivalent relationship with malls, which are simultaneously welcoming (safe environments that target the teenage market) and hostile (places in which teenagers are seen as a threat to safety and order). Based on ethnographic research and interviews with teenagers and mall authorities, the book analyzes hanging out as the tactical practice of movement--as shopping, loitering, and watching the crowd--which is both...

-A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essential guides to the good life of cultural consumption... a long overdue examination of how cultural intermediaries work, and how their work supports the new capitalist economy.-
- Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University

-An array of talented contributors, skilfully brought together by the editors, show how the concept of cultural intermediaries can cast light on cultural production, and on media, culture and...

"A rich selection of readings that expose the shadowy underworld of critics, bloggers, tweeters and stylists who have become essential guides to the good life of cultural consumption... a long overdue examination of how cultural intermediaries work, and how their work supports the new capitalist economy." - Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University "An array of talented contributors, skilfully brought together by the editors, show how the concept of cultural intermediaries can cast light on cultural production, and on media, culture and society." - David Hesmondhalgh, University of...