| "Skate and Destroy"? Contributor(s): Penny, Joe (Author) |
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ISBN: 3639325354 ISBN-13: 9783639325355 Publisher: VDM Verlag OUR PRICE: $50.27 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2011 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 6" W x 9" (0.23 lbs) 64 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This essay offers a critique of the subcultural discourse surrounding skateboarding. Skateboarding I argue has been represented in academia, popular culture and skateboard media as a subculture which resists mainstream society. First by identifying three central themes in the Birmingham Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies' theorisation of subcultures: resistance, societal reaction and subcultural identity, and by demonstrating how geographers have interpreted these themes spatially, I deconstruct the nature of the skateboarding as subculture discourse. Then, drawing on a qualitative set of methods, I argue that the everyday lives and experiences of skateboarders complicates the assumed naturalness of the subculture-mainstream culture binary. Indeed I end this paper by concluding that this core ontology in the study of skateboarding is unhelpful. Instead I propose an alternative framework, centred around the concept of Performativity, and a novel ontological starting point to argue that skateboarding, and potentially other subcultures, might be best understood as ordinary rather than marginal or different. |