Rhythmanalysing marathon running: ‘A drama of rhythms’

Tim Edensor, Jonas Larsen

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Abstract

This paper draws on Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis to investigate the multiple rhythms of the Berlin Marathon, exemplifying and expanding understandings about the rhythms of places and mobilities. First, we discuss how isorhythmic order is imposed on the city and event by race organizers. Secondly, we show that a marathon depends upon the preparatory training or ‘dressage’ performed by the thousands who have made themselves ‘race-ready’. Thirdly, we explore the changing individual and collective rhythms that continuously emerge according to contingencies and stages of the race to compose an unfolding drama of rhythms that includes both arrhythmic and eurhythmic experiences.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEnvironment and Planning A
Vol/bind50
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)730-746
Antal sider17
ISSN0308-518X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 1 maj 2018

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