Some of the current academic research articles on parkour that Julie is aware of. Please email Julie if there are more articles to add.
Special thanks to Belinda Wheaton and Paul Gilchrist at the University of Brighton.
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
