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    Rhythmanalysing marathon running: ‘A drama of rhythms’

    Edensor, T and Larsen, J (2018) Rhythmanalysing marathon running: ‘A drama of rhythms’. Environment and Planning A, 50 (3). pp. 730-746. ISSN 0308-518X

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    © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. 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.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 31 May 2018 14:30
    Publisher: SAGE Publications
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Environment and Planning A, published by and copyright SAGE Publications.
    Divisions: Faculties > Business and Law
    Subject terms: 1205 Urban And Regional Planning, 1604 Human Geography, 1402 Applied Economics, Geography
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/620714
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17746407
    ISSN 0308-518X

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