Tag: Michael James Roberts
Brilliant new book on skateboarding as a craft
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.
A very high quality and detailed history of surfing in California
In his new book Waikīkī Dreams: How California Appropriated Hawaiian Beach Culture (University of Illinois Press), Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Michael Roberts is our knowledgeable reviewer, and he is impressed and appreciative of Moser’s grand effort to fill embarrassing gaps in our understanding of the role of colonialism and racism in the historical relationship between Hawaiian and Californian surfing.
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 55, 2020, No. 2
The International Review for the Sociology of Sport is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, from standard length research papers to shorter reports and commentary, as well as book and media reviews.
