Surfing, Street Skateboarding, Performance, and Space: On Board Motility (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498549028)

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.

Author: Hunter H. Fine
ISBN-10: 1498549020
ISBN-13: 9781498549028
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2018
Pages: 334
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.54lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2019