Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-313-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Consumption and Sustainability in Asia

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia's urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of 'spots'. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding's primary cultural artefact. Once captured, skate video circulates rapidly through digital platforms to millions of viewers, enrolling spots from Shenzhen to Ramallah into an alternative cartography of Asia. This book explores this way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, and the implications for relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDuie-Ra, Duncan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Fitness, Freizeitsport, Gesundheitssport Inlineskating, Skateboarding etc.
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sportsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Urban Asia: Endless Spots
Escaping the California Gridlock
(Re)Mapping Asia Through Spots
Structure of the Book
Chapter 2. Shredding the Urban Fabric
Spots: Urban Landscapes Below the Knees
Infrastructure's Adjacent Publics
Splicing the Map
Life on Video, Life Online
Conclusion
Chapter 3. Chasing the Concrete Dragon
From Chinese Consumers to Consuming China
Skateboarding at Shenzhen Speed
Endless Spots, New Cartographies
Communist Wonderland
Conclusion
Chapter 4. Spectacle Cities: The Luxury Of Emptiness
Central Asian Spectacles
Emptying Dubai
Dubai Unreal
Spectacle And Its Others
Conclusion
Chapter 5. For the Love of Soviet Planning
Post-Soviet Urban Space From Below (the Knees)
Independence Square (Tashkent)
Ala-Too Square (Bishkek)
The Outer Grid
Haunted Spots
Conclusion
Chapter 6. Skateboarding's New Frontiers
Iran: Revolutionary Modernity
India: Rough Cut Modern
Shredding the Architecture of Occupation
Conclusion
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Another 'Next China'
Real-Time Blues
Endless Spots, Endless Search
Bibliography
Skate Videos And Media Files
Published Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McDuie-Ra, Duncan
Duncan McDuie-Ra is professor of Urban Sociology at University of Newcastle, Australia. His most recent sole-authored books are Borderland City in New India (2016), Debating Race in Contemporary India (2015), and Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail (2012).