ABSTRACT
North America is undeniably the home of the extreme sport phenomenon (cf. Rinehart, 2008) and, as Bourdieu (1984) observed, the spiritual base of many lifestyle sports. There is, however, evidence of the increasing global reach of lifestyle sports, both as mediated events and as participatory experiences. In this chapter, I consider if, as Jarvie puts it, lifestyle sport is solely the ‘lifestyle choice’ of a privileged ‘Western play-world’? (2006: 277).
