The Critical Surf Studies Reader
Role
Dexter Zavalda Hough-Snee (Editor)
Alexander Sotelo Eastman (Editor)
Files
Description
The evolution of surfing—from the first forms of wave-riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics—traverses the age of empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital age, taking on new meanings at each juncture. As corporations have sought to promote surfing as a lifestyle and leisure enterprise, the sport has also narrated its own epic myths that place North America at the center of surf culture and relegate Hawai‘i and other indigenous surfing cultures to the margins. The Critical Surf Studies Reader brings together eighteen interdisciplinary essays that explore surfing's history and development as a practice embedded in complex and sometimes oppositional social, political, economic, and cultural relations. Refocusing the history and culture of surfing, this volume pays particular attention to reclaiming the roles that women, indigenous peoples, and people of color have played in surfing.
ISBN
978-0822369721
Publication Date
9-14-2017
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Disciplines
Critical and Cultural Studies | Cultural History | Sports Studies
Recommended Citation
Zavalda Hough-Snee, Dexter and Sotelo Eastman, Alexander, "The Critical Surf Studies Reader" (2017). Faculty Book Gallery. 346.
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/346