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Sovereign Surfing in the Society of Control: The Parkour Chase in Casino Royale as a Staging of Social Change
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1342-2531
Halmstad University, School of Education, Humanities and Social Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2965-4457
2024 (English)In: Rethinking Sport and Social Issues / [ed] Jesper Andreasson; April Henning, Basel: MDPI, 2024, p. 1-17Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In “Postscript on Societies of Control”, French philosopher Gilles Deleuze proclaimed that “Everywhere surfing has replaced the older sports”. By this, he alluded to Foucault’s thoughts on older societal regimes and power diagrams of sovereignty and discipline, and that now such models have been supplemented with governance through control and allegations of increased freedom. This article has as its point of departure the potential of sports to reflect social change. Contemporaneously to the coining of Deleuze’s surfing sentence, a new sport emerges: parkour, in which practitioners “surf” the urban realm. This practice gained attention globally when it was featured in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. The analysis in this article revolves around the different ways of moving in and through the environment in the renowned parkour chase in the beginning of the movie. How do different kinds of displacement in the parkour chase of Casino Royale relate to the transition between the societies described by Deleuze, and what new adaptations emerge and what old logics and models return? It is concluded that the older forms of power prevail and that the ideal of the society of control cannot be realised.

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Basel: MDPI, 2024. p. 1-17
Keywords [en]
James Bond, parkour, surfing, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, control, discipline, sovereignty, movement, social change
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Humanities and the Arts Sport and Fitness Sciences History of Ideas Studies on Film
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Health Innovation, M4HP
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-52728ISBN: 978-3-7258-0022-3 (print)ISBN: 978-3-7258-0021-6 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-52728DiVA, id: diva2:1839608
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A reprint of the article from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Available from: 2024-02-21 Created: 2024-02-21 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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