Skateboarding between subculture and the Olympics : a youth culture under pressure from commercialization and sportification / Veith Kilberth, Jürgen Schwier (eds.).

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TextSeries: Body culturesPublisher: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2019]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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3839447658
9783839447659

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796.22 23

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GV859.8 .S53 2019

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Quo vadis Skateboarding? / Schwier, Jürgen / Kilberth, Veith -- Skateboarding between Subculture and Olympic Games / Schwier, Jürgen -- From Stairs to Podium / Schäfer, Eckehart Velten -- The Olympic Skateboarding Terrain between Subculture and Sportisation / Kilberth, Veith -- Skatepark Worlds / Borden, Iain -- Can You Sell Out if You've Never Been in? / Beal, Becky / Ebeling, Kristin -- No Comply. The Resilience of Skateboarding Culture / Schweer, Sebastian -- The Role of Online Media Content in Skateboard Culture / Bock, Katharina -- Sport Instead of Play / Cantin-Brault, Antoine -- Skateboarding in Pedagogical Production / Bindel, Tim / Pick, Niklas -- Lords of the Rings: Reasserting the Skateboarding Art at the Olympic Games / Colberg, Tait -- Authors

Summary: The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity?This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding's core ethos and the tenets of institutionalized sports. Eleven acclaimed international authors from the fields of architecture, philosophy, sociology, sports sciences and gender studies provide a unique perspective on the manifold manifestations of skateboarding previously ignored by academic discourse.

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The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity?This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding's core ethos and the tenets of institutionalized sports. Eleven acclaimed international authors from the fields of architecture, philosophy, sociology, sports sciences and gender studies provide a unique perspective on the manifold manifestations of skateboarding previously ignored by academic discourse.

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