Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g
Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 546 g
Reihe: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
ISBN: 978-1-138-84934-1
Verlag: Routledge
The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it – by the places, ideas, images, and other representations which at once reflect, create, and commodify this spatial practice.
This book innovatively explores the spaces of surf and surf-riding, informed specifically by the perspective of human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the social sciences, the book explores the locations, relational sensibilities, and transformative nature of surfing spaces, and examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of access, entitlement, and marginalization have been created, and how, with the advent of new craft, media, and ideals, they are being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the twenty-first century.
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1. Welcome to Surfing Spaces. 2. Turning towards Surfing Spaces. Part I: 3. Locating Surfing Spaces. 4. Relating to Surfing Spaces. 5. The Surf-Riding Cyborg. 6. The Relational Sensibilities of Surfing Spaces. 7. The Stoke of Surf-Riders. 8. The Event of Surfing Spaces. Part II: 9. The heterogeneous histories of surfing spaces and their cultural colonisation Chapter 10 The Imagineering of Surfing Spaces. 11. The International Influence of the Surfing Spaces Script. 12. Coding Surfing Spaces: Surf-Rider Positioning. 13. Codes of Surf-Rider Provenance. 14. Codes of Craft. 15. Codes of Gender. 16. Codes of Travel: the Trans-local Surf-Rider. 17. New Surfing Spaces.
