Moving Boarders: Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports

ISBN-13: 9781682260791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 315 str.

Matthew Atencio; Becky Beal; E. Missy Wright

Opis

Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance.

Spis treści

• Introduction
• Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape
• 1. Neo-liberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding
• 2. Social Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development
• 3. “They Were All About Police, Police, Police...We Don't Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult Organized Social Space
• 4. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred”
• 5. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley”
• 6. The Use of Skate Parks to Create New Spaces of Values for Youth, Families, and Urban Communities