Skateboarding Subcultures, Sites and Shifts [Paperback]

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 skateboardings history around mainstreaming, commercialization, professionalization, neoliberalization and creative cities.

1. The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and the Rise of Skate Urbanism Kara-Jane Lombard Part I: Cultures and Scenes2.  No One Standing Above You: Rodney Mullen and the Ethics of Innovation Bill Schaffer3.  Skateboard Philanthropy: Inclusion and Prefigurative Politics Paul OConnor  4. Skateboarding Activism: Exploring Diverse Voices and Community Support Indigo Willing and Scott Shearer  5.He Catches Things in Flight: Scopic Regimes, Visuality and Skateboarding in Tyneside, England Michael Jeffries, Sebastian Messer and Jon Swords  6. Posing L.A., Performing Tokyo: Photography and Race in Skateboardings Global Imaginary Dwayne Dixon Part II: Sites and Space  7. Southbank Skateboarding, London and Urban Culture: the Undercroft, Hungerford Bridge and House of Vans Iain Borden  8. The Legitimate Skateboarder: Politics of Private-Public Skateboarding Spaces Matthew Atencio and Becky Beal  9.Spreading the Skirtboarder Stoke: Reflexively Blogging Fluid Femininities and Constructing New FemalelCP