Healthy lifestyle and the Belgrade marathon: Recreational runners or fanatics?
The aim of the paper is to re-examine the concept of marathon as a sports recreational activity that presupposes a healthy lifestyle. Through the theoretical concept of escapism on the example of the Belgrade Marathon, the autobiographical book of a recreational marathon runner and autobiographical...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Sociological Association, Belgrade
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Sociološki Pregled |
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| Online Access: | https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0085-6320/2019/0085-63201901178R.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of the paper is to re-examine the concept of marathon as a sports recreational activity that presupposes a healthy lifestyle. Through the theoretical concept of escapism on the example of the Belgrade Marathon, the autobiographical book of a recreational marathon runner and autobiographical records of recreational runners, recreational participation in marathons is studied as a form of escapism from the problems of everyday life that ends up as a certain form of fanaticism. Fanaticism expressed in the imperative of success imposed through the obligation to finish the race changes the approach to a recreational activity whose goal is, among other things, to improve and nurture health. In the social context of neo-liberalism, this (self-)imposed imperative often leads in the direction of disrupting health for its own fulfillment. |
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| ISSN: | 0085-6320 2560-4880 |