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.
Contributors. Douglas Booth, Peter Brosius, Robin Canniford, Krista Comer, Kevin Dawson, Clifton Evers, Chris Gibson, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee, Scott Laderman, Kristin Lawler, lisahunter, Colleen McGloin, Patrick Moser, Tara Ruttenberg, Cori Schumacher, Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Glen Thompson, Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Andrew Warren, Belinda Wheaton
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Coloniality and Decolonization
- 1. On a Mission: Hiram Bingham and the Rhetoric of Urgency
- 2. A World Apart: Pleasure, Rebellion, and the Politics of Surf Tourism
- 3. Kai Ea: Rising Waves of National and Ethnic Hawaiian Identities
- 4. Consolidation, Creativity, and (de)Colonization in the State of Modern Surfing
- 5. Decolonizing Sustainable Surf Tourism
- Part II: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
- 6. Surfing beyond Racial and Colonial Imperatives in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and Oceania
- 7. Pushing under the Whitewash: Revisiting the Making of South Africa’s Surfing Sixties
- 8. Space Invaders in Surfing’s White Tribe: Exploring Surfing, Race, and Identity
- 9. Indigenous Surfing: Pedagogy, Pleasure, and Decolonial Practice
- 10. Appropriating Surfing and the Politics of Indigenous Authenticity
- Part III: Feminist Critical Geography
- 11. Surfeminism, Critical Regionalism, and Public Scholarship
- 12. Desexing Surfing? Pedagogies of Possibility
- 13. “My Mother Is a Fish”: From Stealth Feminism to Surfeminism
- Part IV: Capitalism, Economics, and the Commodification of Surf Culture
- 14. Free Ride: The Food Stamp Surfer, American Counterculture, and the Refusal of Work
- 15. The Political Economy of Surfing Culture: Production, Profit, and Representation
- 16. Soulful and Precarious: The Working Experiences of Surfboard Makers
- 17. Branded Primitives
- 18. Surfing and Contemporary China
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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