Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the
relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first …

Racial diversity has shaped skateboarding in the US and beyond. Scholarly attention to race
and skateboarding, however, remains fixated with critiquing whiteness and consequently …

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes
a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here …

This article explores ageing in alternative cultures and co-existing forms of hyper and
alternative masculinity in the US film Jackass Forever released in 2022. The film is a …

Previous research on skateboarding has been conducted largely under the lens of cultural
studies. Recently, there has been growing recognition of skateboarding as an industry under …

This article examines the 1995 fictional feature film Kids, which locates its story in
skateboarding culture. The film reached its 25th anniversary in 2020; it is directed by Larry …

Based on mediatization theory, this article tracks how skateboarders experience and
negotiate the entry of social media into their subculture. Building on existing scholarship, I …

This conceptual paper elaborates on the paradigm of 'grey spaces' in skateboarding. It
presents the fundamentals of the grey spaces concept as a bond between the material and …

Alternative media enable marginalized people to voice their experiences, challenge
dominant ideologies, and circumvent mainstream gatekeepers. Podcasts are an alternative …

The City of Melbourne's Skate Melbourne Plan purports to be skateboarder-centered,
focusing on developing skate spaces for skateboarders. Drawing on research analyzing …