Tag: Brian Glenney

Edited by Michael Roberts, Kristin Lawler, and David P. Cline, Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing (SDSU Press) takes the widespread participation of skateboarders and surfers in the Black Lives Matter movement as a catalyst to reconsider the significance of the cultural politics of surfing and skateboarding. We asked historian Matthew L. McDowell for a review. He found an “intriguing collection” combatting an ingrained cultural stereotype of skateboarders and surfers as uncaring and apolitical, a book likely to serve as a reference point in the field for years to come.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Skateboarding and contested public space in Portrush, Northern Ireland: exploring tensions between resortification and DIY space-claiming through co-creative methodology by Jim Donaghey & Slaine Browne (open access).

In Sander Hölsgens’ and Brian Glenney’s new book Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces a new perspective on skateboarding is presented, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of “city craft”. According to our reviewer Michael Roberts, the book makes a crucial intervention in skateboard studies, and the definition of skateboarding as a craft is key to their intervention. This is a must read for interested in skateboard studies and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports more generally.

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed journal which publishes original research contributions to scientific knowledge. It publishes high quality articles from a wide variety of philosophical traditions. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Patriarchy in Disguise: Burke on Pike and World Rugby by Miroslav Imbrišević.

Journal of Sport and Social Issues (JSSI) brings you the latest research, discussion and analysis on contemporary sport issues. Using an international, interdisciplinary perspective, JSSI examines today's most pressing and far-reaching questions about sport.

The anthology Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is the first title in a new series from Lexington Books, Studies in Philosopy of Sport. The series editor is Shawn E. Klein, and Dr. Klein is also the editor of this interesting anthology, which is reviewed here by Anne Tjønndal.