Planned Themes:

• representation and reality:
  
  the media as a usual first point of contact, analysis of media representation of parkour, and the contrast with experiences made in participant observation, i.e. in training with traceurs
   
  


• fractures and the quest for unity:
  
  discussions on the correct definition of parkour, fractions, attempts at control/structure, the quest for unity/commonality - all issues that mainly seem to take place in cyberspace; and the contrast with the community of traceurs in practice
   
  


• pk as cultural practice:
  
  
  
  1. re-interpretation of city structure/public spaces;
      
     
  
  
  2. conflict between majority culture and this subculture, in particular the strange gap opening between traceurs individually choosing their paths - as the wider cultural orientation argues were always supported - and the real obligation to behave normally that the majority appears to propound;
      
     
  
  
  3. the meaning of parkour to the traceur: relation to risk-seeking, physical exercise/sedentary lifestyle, feelings of agency/self-efficacy...