ABSTRACT
This book explores the cultural, social, spatial, and political dynamics of skateboarding, drawing on contributions from leading international experts across a range of disciplines, such as sociology and philosophy of sport, architecture, anthropology, ecology, cultural studies, sociology, geography, and other fields. Part I critiques the ethos of skateboarding, its cultures and scenes, global trajectory, and the meanings it holds. Part II critically examines skateboarding in terms of space and sites, and Part III explores shifts that have occurred in skateboarding’s history around mainstreaming, commercialization, professionalization, neoliberalization and creative cities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|74 pages
Cultures and scenes
chapter 5|16 pages
He catches things in flight
Scopic regimes, visuality, and skateboarding in Tyneside, England
chapter 6|16 pages
Posing LA, performing Tokyo
Photography and race in skateboarding's global imaginary
part 2|48 pages
Sites and space
chapter 7|17 pages
Southbank skateboarding, London, and urban culture
The Undercroft, Hungerford Bridge, and House of Vans
chapter 9|16 pages
Spreading the Skirtboarder stoke
Reflexively blogging fluid femininities and constructing new female skateboarding identities
part 3|58 pages
Skate shifts
chapter 10|13 pages
Skateboarding as a technology of the collective
Kona Skatepark, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
chapter 11|17 pages
Steep Transitions
Spatial-temporal incorporation, Beasley Skate Park, and subcultural politics in the gentrifying city
chapter 12|13 pages
Trucks, tricks, and technologies of government
Analyzing the productive encounter between governance and resistance in skateboarding
chapter 13|13 pages
Transformative improvisation
The creation of the commercial skateboard shoe, 1960–1979
