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Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexander Sotelo Eastman is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College.
List of contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman 1
Part I. Coloniality and Decolonization
1. On a Mission: Hiram Bingham and the Rhetoric of Urgency / Patrick Moser 29
2. A World Apart: Pleasure, Rebellion, and the Politics of Surf Tourism / Scott Laderman 47
3. Kai Ea: Rising Waves of National and Ethnic Hawaiian Identities / Isaiah Helekunihi Walker 62
4. Consolidation, Creativity, and (de)Colonization in the State of Modern Surfing / Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman 84
5. Decolonizing Sustainable Surf Tourism / Tara Ruttenberg and Peter Brosius 109
Part II. Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
6. Surfing beyond Racial and Colonial Imperatives in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and Oceania / Kevin Dawson 135
7. Pushing under the Whitewash: Revisiting the Making of South Africa's Surfing Sixties / Glen Thompson 155
8. Space Invaders in Surfing's White Tribe: Exploring Surfing, Race, and Identity / Belinda Wheaton 177
9. Indigenous Surfing: Pedagogy, Pleasure, and Decolonial Practice / Colleen McGloin 196
10. Appropriating Surfing and the Politics of Indigenous Authenticity / Dina Gilio-Whitaker 214
Part III. Feminist Critical Geography
11. Surfeminism, Critical Regionalism, and Public Scholarship / Krista Comer 235
12. Desexing Surfing? Pedagogies of Possibility / lisahunter 263
13. "My Mother Is a Fish": From Stealth Feminism to Surfeminism / Cori Schumacher 284
Part IV. Capitalism, Economics, and the Commodification of Surf Culture
14. Free Ride: The Food Stamp Surfer, American Counterculture, and the Refusal of Work / Kristin Lawler 305
15. The Political Economy of Surfing Culture: Production, Profit, and Representation / Douglas Booth 318
16. Soulful and Precarious: The Working Experiences of Surfboard Makers / Andrew Warren and Chris Gibson 342
17. Branded Primitives / Robin Canniford 365
18. Surfing and Contemporary China / Clifton Evers 386
Bibliography 403
Contributors 443
Index 449
About the author
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alexander Sotelo Eastman is a postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College.
Summary
An innovative exploration of the history and culture of surfing that recasts wave-riding as a complex cultural practice and reclaims the forgotten roles that women, indigenous peoples, and peoples of color have played in the its evolution.
