Surfing Spaces

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Jon Anderson is a Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Anderson, Anderson Jon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032301761
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230176-1
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Water sports & recreations, Human Geography, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / General, Water sports and recreations