Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports

Author:   Matthew Atencio ,  Becky Beal ,  E. Missy Wright ,  ZáNean McClain
Publisher:   University of Arkansas Press
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9781682260784


Pages:   315
Publication Date:   30 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports


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Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park. This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.

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Author:   Matthew Atencio ,  Becky Beal ,  E. Missy Wright ,  ZáNean McClain
Publisher:   University of Arkansas Press
Imprint:   University of Arkansas Press
Weight:   0.668kg
ISBN:  

9781682260784


ISBN 10:   168226078
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   30 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape 1. Neo-liberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding 2. Social Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development 3. “They Were All About Police, Police, Police...We Don't Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult Organized Social Space 4. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred” 5. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley” 6. The Use of Skate Parks to Create New Spaces of Values for Youth, Families, and Urban Communities

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For decades, skateboarders have considered themselves outside of mainstream culture. The skateboard, for these folks, is an emblem of independence, liberty, and creative provocation. As a lifelong skateboarder, I found Moving Boarders to be an accurate reflection of skateboarding's cultural qualities. More than ever, skateboarding presents a healthy--if sometimes subversive--option for today's youth. Moving Boarders is a vital account of what works in skateboarding. --Peter Whitley, Programs Director, Tony Hawk Foundation


For decades, skateboarders have considered themselves outside of mainstream culture. The skateboard, for these folks, is an emblem of independence, liberty, and creative provocation. As a lifelong skateboarder, I found Moving Boarders to be an accurate reflection of skateboarding's cultural qualities. More than ever, skateboarding presents a healthy-if sometimes subversive-option for today's youth. Moving Boarders is a vital account of what works in skateboarding. - Peter Whitley, Programs Director, Tony Hawk Foundation


Author Information

Matthew Atencio is associate professor of kinesiology and codirector of the Center for Sport and Social Justice at California State University, East Bay. Becky Beal is professor of sociology and philosophy of sport at California State University, East Bay, and the author of Skateboarding: The Ultimate Guide. E. Missy Wright is assistant professor of kinesiology and codirector of the Center for Sport and Social Justice at California State University, East Bay. ZáNean McClain is associate professor of kinesiology at California State University, East Bay.

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