Skateboarding and the Senses - Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of 'city craft'. Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces.

List of contents

1. A Magical Bind: Writing Skate Culture, 2. The Skater's Body: A Sensory Anthropology of Sideways Movement, 3. Crafting the City: Embodied, Symbolic, and Engaged Skateboarding, 4. Failure and the Senses: A Skate Pedagogy of Care and Resilience, 5. Grey Pleasure: Skateboarding As a Deviant and Salubrious Ecology, 6. Epilogue: Towards a Multispecies Futurity for Skateboarding

About the author

Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a co-director of Pushing Boarders, a platform and international conference tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. His popular writing on skateboarding has appeared in Skateism, Vice, and Jenkem. Together with Miriam Waltz and Mandy de Wilde, he currently runs the research project "Tracing pollution: practicing the anthropology of the more-than-human" (2023–2029).
Brian Glenney is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Norwich University in Vermont, USA. He works in both the fields of philosophy of perception and spatial justice. He is the co-editor of two volumes in Routledge’s Rewriting the History of Philosophy Book Series: Molyneux’s Question and the History of Philosophy and The Senses and the History of Philosophy and has written several peer-reviewed articles on spatial justice and skateboarding.

Summary

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of ‘city craft'. Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Glenney, Glenney Brian, Sander (Leiden University Holsgens, Sander Hölsgens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032839721
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3283972-1
• No. of pages: 84
• Series: Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, SPORTS & RECREATION / Skateboarding, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural anthropology, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Rollerblading, skateboarding, etc