Julie is the first person to undertake research at a PhD level in the subject of parkour.
Julie successfully completed an Audio Visual PhD at Brunel University’s Screen Media Research Centre. She has presented her work at various festivals and exhibitions all over the world as well as participating in academic conferences.
Title: Ciné Parkour: a cinematic and theoretical contribution to the understanding of the practice of parkour.
Supervisors: Professor Michael Wayne, Dr. Alisa Lebow
Research interests: collaborative filmmaking processes, participant observation, shared cinema, activism, creativity, space, place, identity, phenomenology, mediatisation, sportification, body cultures.
For an insight into how the research began click here to read an article published in Spiked magazine.
Parkour
Some of the current academic research articles on parkour that Julie is aware of. Please email Julie if there are more articles to add.
Parkour Research Papers
Rawlinson, Christopher & Guaralda, Mirko (2012) Chaos and creativity of play : designing emotional engagement in public spaces. In Out of Control : 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion, 11-14 September 2012, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London.
Kidder, Jeffrey L. (2012) Parkour, The Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic
Article first published online: 17 AUG 2012
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2012.01406.x/full
Angel, J. (2011) Ciné Parkour: a cinematic and theoretical contribution to the understanding of the practice of parkour. A PhD thesis.
Brunner C., Nice-looking obstacles: parkour as urban practice of deterritorialization, AI & SOCIETY
Volume 26, Number 2 (2011), 143-152, DOI: 10.1007/s00146-010-0294-2
From the issue entitled "Special Issue: Poetic and Speculative Architectures in Public Space
Rawlinson, Christopher & Guaralda, Mirko (2011) Play in the city : Parkour and architecture. In The First International Postgraduate Conference on Engineering, Designing and Developing the Built Environment for Sustainable Wellbeing, 27-29 April 2011, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Qld.
Archer, N. (2010) ‘Virtual poaching and altered space: reading parkour in French visual culture, Modern & Contemporary France, 18 (1).
LeBreton, F. Routier, G., Héas S., and Bodin, D. (2010) ‘Cultures urbaines et activités physiques et sportives. La sportification du parkour et du street golf comme médiation culturelle’, Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue Canadienne de Sociologie, 47(3), pp.293-317
Taylor, J.E.T. and Witt, J.K. (2010) ‘When walls are no longer barriers: perception of obstacle height in parkour’, Journal of Vision, 10(7)
Atkinson, M. (2009) ‘Parkour, anarcho-environmentalism, and poiesis’, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 33 (2), pp.169-194
Gilchrist, P. and Wheaton, B. (n.d.) ‘Lifestyle sport, public policy and youth engagement: Examining the emergence of parkour’ International Journal of Sport Policy, under review
Marshall, B. (2010) ‘Running across the rooves of Empire: parkour and the postcolonial city’ Modern & Contemporary France, 18(2), pp.157-173
Mould, O. (2009) Parkour, the city, the event. Environment and Planning: Society and space, 27, 738-750
Ortuzar, J. (2009) Parkour or l’art du deplacement. The Drama Review 53(3) pp.54-66
Daskalaki, M. Stara, A., & Miguel, I. (2008) ‘Parkour organisation: inhabitation of corporate spaces’, Culture & Organisation, 14(1), 49-64
Miller, J.R., & Demoiny, S. G. (2008) Parkour: A New Extreme Sport and a case Study. The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, 47(1), 63-65
Saville, S.J. (2008) Playing with Fear: Parkour and the mobility of emotion’ Social & Cultural Geography 9(8) 891-914
Thomson, D. (2008) ‘Jump city: parkour and traces’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 107(2), pp.251-263
Bavinton, N. (2007) ‘From obstacle to opportunity: parkour, leisure, and the reinterpretation of constraints’, Annals of leisure Research, 10 (3/4), pp.391-412
Edwardes, D. (2007) Parkour . In D. Booth & H. Thorpe (Eds.), Berkshire encyclopedia of extreme sports (pp. 233-236). Great Barrington. Massachusetts Berkshire publishing group.
Geyh, P. (2006) ‘Urban free flow: A poetics of parkour’. M/C Media Culture Journal 9 (3), 4.
McLean, C.R., Houshian, S., & Pike, J. (2006) Paediatric fractures sustained in Parkour (freerunning). Injury, 37(8), 795-797
Mörtenbäck, Peter (2005). Free Running and the Hugged City. Thresholds, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 30
Fuggle, S. (2008) Discourses of Subversion: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Capoeira and Parkour. Dance Research, 26(2)
Ferrari, M. (2010): From ”Play to Display”: Parkour as Media-Mimetics or Nature Reclaimation? FlowTV, vol 11, lokaliseret den 01-04-2011 på:
Gus, N. (2011): Parkour and the Multitude: Politics of a Dangerous Art. French Cultural Studies, 22(1)
Thomson, D. (2008): Jump city: parkour and the traces. South Atlantic Quarterly, 107 (2)
Ameel, L. & Tani, S. (2012): Everyday aesthetics in action: Parkour Eyes and the beauty of concrete walls”, Emotion, Space and Society, 5(3)
