Graduate Student, Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts
Thesis Title: Cycling and Society
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Dr. D. Sutton
Dr. J. McCall Dr. A. Webster |
About
My thesis explores the relationship between sport and society, highlighting cyclesport. I examine questions that relate to cyclesport through the veins of language use, ethnographic research, gender studies, and phenomenology. This study will elucidate cycling’s relationship within the broad sense of an urban landscape by highlighting how the specific domains of cycle racing and urban commuting transform the nexus between the environment and subject. Many of the questions will engage ideas of what constitutes a community in context of cyclesport. How is this community hierarchically structured through both explicit and implicit practices and how are notions of hierarchy continually challenged, transformed, and renewed will be explored.
