| The Critical Surf Studies Reader Contributor(s): Hough-Snee, Dexter Zavalza (Editor), Sotelo Eastman, Alexander (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0822369575 ISBN-13: 9780822369578 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $113.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Surfing - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 797.32 |
| LCCN: 2017015437 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.70 lbs) 480 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Contributors. Douglas Booth, Peter Brosius, Robin Canniford, Krista Comer, Kevin Dawson, Clifton Evers, Chris Gibson, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee, Scott Laderman, Kristin Lawler, lisahunter, Colleen McGloin, Patrick Moser, Tara Ruttenberg, Cori Schumacher, Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Glen Thompson, Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Andrew Warren, Belinda Wheaton |