Sander Holsgens (Netherlands Leiden University), Brian Glenney (USA Norwich University)

Gebundenes Buch

Skateboarding and the Senses

Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces

Beschreibung

This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of â city craft'. Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces.

Autor

Sander Hölsgens is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a co-director of Pushing Boarders, a platform and international conference tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. His popular writing on skateboarding has appeared in Skateism, Vice, and Jenkem. Together with Miriam Waltz and Mandy de Wilde, he currently runs the research project "Tracing pollution: practicing the anthropology of the more-than-human" (2023-2029). Brian Glenney is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Norwich University in Vermont, USA. He works in both the fields of philosophy of perception and spatial justice. He is the co-editor of two volumes in Routledge's Rewriting the History of Philosophy Book Series: Molyneux's Question and the History of Philosophy and The Senses and the History of Philosophy and has written several peer-reviewed articles on spatial justice and skateboarding.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Focus on Sport, Culture and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 232g
• ISBN-13: 9781032839721
• ISBN-10: 1032839724
• Artikelnr.: 70944453