The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding, or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that synergize with it – by the places, ideas, images, and other representations which at once reflect, create, and commodify this spatial practice.
This book innovatively explores the spaces of surf and surf-riding, informed specifically by the perspective of human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the social sciences, the book explores the locations, relational sensibilities, and transformative nature of surfing spaces, and examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of access, entitlement, and marginalization have been created, and how, with the advent of new craft, media, and ideals, they are being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the twenty-first century.
Chapter 1 Welcome to Surfing Spaces
Chapter 2 Turning towards Surfing Spaces
Part I
Chapter 3 Locating Surfing Spaces
Chapter 4 Relating to Surfing Spaces
Chapter 5 The Surf-Riding Cyborg
Chapter 6 The Relational Sensibilities of Surfing Spaces
Chapter 7 The Stoke of Surf-Riders
Chapter 8 The Event of Surfing Spaces
Part II
Chapter 9 The heterogeneous histories of surfing spaces and their cultural colonisation Chapter 10 The Imagineering of Surfing Spaces
Chapter 11 The International Influence of the Surfing Spaces Script
Chapter 12 Coding Surfing Spaces: Surf-Rider Positioning
Chapter 13 Codes of Surf-Rider Provenance
Chapter 14 Codes of Craft
Chapter 15 Codes of Gender
Chapter 16 Codes of Travel: the Trans-local Surf-Rider
Chapter 17 New Surfing Spaces
Biography
Jon Anderson is a Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.