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Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing
Advance notices for Roll and Flow
“In their powerful new collection, Mike Roberts, Kristin Lawler, and David Cline, together with the impressive roster of scholars they’ve assembled, force us to think about surfing and skateboarding in new and original ways. For them, these pastimes offer the potential for liberation, not a retreat into self-absorption. Theoretically sophisticated and wide-ranging, Roll and Flow is essential reading for all persons interested in modern board cultures.”
Dr. Scott Laderman -- Professor of History at the University of Minnesota Duluth
“Roll and Flow frames the remarkable transformations taking place in skateboarding and surfing cultures. It emerges as an essential collected work for those invested in two dominant lifestyle sports, activities that have reshaped popular culture with their attitude and style and ascended to the realm of Olympic events. These diverse and elegantly complementary essays reveal the new political and social contexts that these sports vocally address and redress.
Paul O’Connor -- Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter, UK
Roll and Flow takes the widespread participation of skateboarders and surfers in the Black Lives Matter movement as a catalyst to reconsider the significance of the cultural politics of surfing and skateboarding. It is the first academic volume to bring together leading scholars in the areas of both surfing and skateboarding studies. Featured authors include Iain Borden, Becky Beal, Aaron James, and Cori Schumacher.
CULTURAL STUDIES - HISTORY OF SURFING – SKATEBOARDING - SKATE CULTURE – ANTHROPOLOGY - SOCIOLOGY
JULY 2024 | 978-0-916304-87-4 | 29.95
“In their powerful new collection, Mike Roberts, Kristin Lawler, and David Cline, together with the impressive roster of scholars they’ve assembled, force us to think about surfing and skateboarding in new and original ways. For them, these pastimes offer the potential for liberation, not a retreat into self-absorption. Theoretically sophisticated and wide-ranging, Roll and Flow is essential reading for all persons interested in modern board cultures.”
Dr. Scott Laderman -- Professor of History at the University of Minnesota Duluth
“Roll and Flow frames the remarkable transformations taking place in skateboarding and surfing cultures. It emerges as an essential collected work for those invested in two dominant lifestyle sports, activities that have reshaped popular culture with their attitude and style and ascended to the realm of Olympic events. These diverse and elegantly complementary essays reveal the new political and social contexts that these sports vocally address and redress.
Paul O’Connor -- Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter, UK
Roll and Flow takes the widespread participation of skateboarders and surfers in the Black Lives Matter movement as a catalyst to reconsider the significance of the cultural politics of surfing and skateboarding. It is the first academic volume to bring together leading scholars in the areas of both surfing and skateboarding studies. Featured authors include Iain Borden, Becky Beal, Aaron James, and Cori Schumacher.
CULTURAL STUDIES - HISTORY OF SURFING – SKATEBOARDING - SKATE CULTURE – ANTHROPOLOGY - SOCIOLOGY
JULY 2024 | 978-0-916304-87-4 | 29.95
394 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2024
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Michael James Roberts
12 books1 followerMichael James Roberts is Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University.
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