Moving Boarders
eBook - ePub

Moving Boarders

Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Moving Boarders

Skateboarding and the Changing Landscape of Urban Youth Sports

About this book

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, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park.

This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital.

 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Series Editor’s Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction. Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape
  9. One. Neoliberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding
  10. Two. Social-Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development
  11. Three. They Were All About Police, Police, Police . . . We Don’t Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult-Organized Social Space
  12. Four. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred”
  13. Five. “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”
  14. Six. The Use of Skate Park Spaces to Create New Values for Youth, Families, and Communities
  15. Methodological Appendix
  16. List of Interviews and Observations Appendix
  17. Notes
  18. Index