Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility

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Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility draws from critical cultural studies, political philosophy, postcolonial studies, urban sociology, and poststructuralist theory in the context of human communication and performance to construct an epistemology of riding boards. This book ponders why we move the way we do and examines the ways in which movements communicate, developing, as a result, a theoretical perspective or board motility that is gestural and fluid, moving in relation to shifting social and physical landscapes. By combining the discourses and practices of critical theory and physical movement, this text presents a sustained analysis of radical political philosophy. In the book the symbolic narratives associated with each physical practice are deconstructed as their theoretical counterparts are thoroughly established. Then, through performance, the author narrows the divide between these two forms of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, outlining and embodying an ontological and epistemological stoke in the process that emerges from riding boards, on both waves and streets.

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Eloquently written and theoretically rich, this book makes a splash in the scholarship of everyday performance, space, movement. It's a refreshing and thought-provoking read that combines refined academic due diligence with the excitement of outlaw skater culture. I anticipate it being enjoyed by both students and professors alike. -- Jason Del Gandio, Temple University
Hunter Hawkins Fine provides has written a sophisticated assessment of movement in space as public performance. Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility is a unique book that foregrounds everyday mobility and larger historical changes that can be re-considered through urban performance studies. -- Daniel Makagon, DePaul University

Author Bio

Hunter H. Fine is lecturer of communication studies at Humboldt State University.