The critical surf studies reader
By: Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman, editors
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780822369578; 9780822369721
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social aspects; Surfing
Description: "The evolution of surfing—from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture. As corporations have sought to promote surfing as a lifestyle and leisure enterprise, the sport has also narrated its own epic myths that place North America at the center of surf culture and relegate Hawai'i and other indigenous surfing cultures to the margins. The Critical Surf Studies Reader brings together eighteen interdisciplinary essays that explore surfing's history and development as a practice embedded in complex and sometimes oppositional social, political, economic, and cultural relations. Refocusing the history and culture of surfing, this volume pays particular attention to reclaiming the roles that women, indigenous peoples, and people of color have played in surfing."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-442) and index.
Table of contents: title: Colonialisms & decolonization; title: On a mission : Hiram Bingham and the rhetoric of urgency / Patrick Moser; title: A world apart: pleasure, rebellion, and the politics of surf tourism / Scott Laderman; title: Kai Ea: rising waves of national and ethnic Hawaiian identities / Isaiah Helekunihi Walker; title: Consolidation, creativity, and (de)colonization in the state of modern surfing / Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee & Alexander Sotelo Eastman; title: Decolonizing sustainable surf tourism / Tara Ruttenberg & Pete Brosius; title: Race, ethnicity and identity; title: Surfing beyond racial and colonial imperatives in early modern Atlantic Africa and Oceania / Kevin Dawson; title: Pushing under the whitewash : the double whiteness of South Africa's surfing sixties / Glen Thompson; title: Space invaders in surfing's white tribe: exploring surfing, race and identity / Belinda Wheaton; title: Indigenous surfing : pedagogy, pleasure, and decolonial practice / Colleen McGloin; title: Appropriating surfing and the politics of indigenous authenticity / Dina Gilio-Whitaker; title: Feminist critical geography; title: Surfeminism, critical regionalism, public scholarship / Krista Comer; title: Desexing surfing's pedagogies of possibility / lisahunter; title: "My mother is a fish" : from stealth feminism to surfeminism / Cori Schumacher; title: Capitalism, economics and the commodification of surf culture; title: The surfer imaginary and the politics of leisure / Kristin Lawler; title: The political economy of surfing : production, profit, and representation / Douglas Booth; title: Soulful and precarious : the working experiences of surfboard makers / Andrew Warren & Chris Gibson; title: Branded primitives / Robin Canniford; title: Surfing and contemporary China / Clifton Evers.