FÖRVÅNANDE KAPABEL - kroppslighet och rumslighet i fem kvinnors erfarenheter av parkour
The urban physical practice of parkour can be described as male dominated. In thispaper, however, I choose to focus on women participating in the sport. My materialconsist of interviews with five Swedish women who regularly perform parkour.Through the phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Iris Marion Young and SaraAhmed, I analyze the women?s relationship to the body and (public) space. Myconclusion is that engaging in parkour has changed the way the women understandtheir own corporeality, from an ?I cannot? to an ?I can?. In this sense, parkour hashelped the women overcome what Young calls an ?inhibited intentionality?. Anotherconclusion is that practising parkour has led to a reorientation of their relation to theworld. Parkour has created a wonder; the capacity to leave behind the place of theordinary.