The Knowledge Bank – Parkour

The knowledge bank - literary material about parkour:

International scientific articles, prepared by Ph.D. Signe Højbjerre Larsen

Ameel, L. & Tani, S. (2012): Everyday aesthetics in action: Parkour eyes and the beauty of concrete walls,  Emotion, Space & Society,  5(3)

Archer, N. (2010): Visual poaching and altered space: reading parkour in French visual culture. Modern and contemporary France, 18 (1)

Atkinson, M. (2009): Parkour, Anarcho-Environmentalism, and Poiesis. Journal of sport and social issues, 33 (2)

Bravinton, N. (2007): From obstacle to Opportunity: parkour, leisure and the reinterpretation of constraints.  Annals of leisure research, 10 (3/4)

Broderick, C. (2011): Parkour and the critique of ideology: Turn-vaulting the fortresses of the city, Journal of Dance & Somatic Practice, 2(2)

Brunner, C. (2011): Nice-looking Obstacles: Parkour as urban practice of deterritorialization.  AI & Society,  26 (2)

Clegg, J.L. & Butryn, T.M. (2012) An existential phenomenological examination of Parkour and freerunning, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 4(3)

Daskalaki, M, Stara, A & Miguel, I (2008): The "Parkour Organisation": inhibition of corporate spaces. Culture and Organization, 14 (1)

Ferrari, Michael (2010) From "Play to Display": Parkour as Media-Mimetics, or Nature Reclamation? (online)

Fuggle, S. (2008) Discourses of Subversion: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Capoeira and Parkour. Dance Research, 26(2)

Geyh, P. (2006): Urban free flow: a poetics of Parkour. M/C Journal, 9 (3)

Gilchrist, P. & Wheaton, B. (2011): Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: Examining the emergence of parkour, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 3 (1)

Gus, N. (2011): Parkour and the Multitude: Politics of a Dangerous Art. French Cultural Studies, 22(1)

Kidder, J.L (2012) Parkour, The Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic, City & Community, 11(3)

LeBreton, F. Routier, G., Héas S., and Bodin, D. (2010) 'Cultures urbaines et activités physiques et sportives. La sportification du parkour et du street golf comme médiation culturelle’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, 47(3)

McLean, C.R., Houshian, S., & Pike, J. (2006) Pediatric fractures sustained in Parkour (freerunning). Injury, 37(8)

Marshall, B. (2010): 'Running across the rooves of Empire: parkour and the postcolonial city' Modern & Contemporary France, 18(2)

Miller, J.R., & Demoiny, S.G. (2008) Parkour: A New Extreme Sport and a case Study.  The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 47(1)