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Immersion is about the extreme sport of marathon swimming. Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, 'Immersion' explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed. Using marathon swimming as a lens, this foundation provides the basis for an exploration of what constitutes the 'good' body in contemporary neoliberal society across a range of sites including charitable swimming, fatness, gender and health.

Sports --- Long distance swimming. --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Belongingness (Social psychology) --- Connectedness (Social psychology) --- Social belonging --- Social connectedness --- Social psychology --- Social integration --- Sociology of sports --- Sociology --- Channel swimming --- Marathon swimming --- Swimming, Long distance --- Swimming --- Sociological aspects. --- Aquatic sociology. --- Embodiment. --- Health. --- Identity. --- Immersion. --- Marathon swimming. --- Social worlds. --- Sport.