Surfing and Social Theory: Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide
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Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory, this book is the first sustained commentary on the contemporary social and cultural meaning of surfing. "Surfing and Social Theory far exceeds Nick Ford and David Brown’s modest goal. Surfing and Social Theory is an original and theoretically rigorous text that sets and Social Theory: Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide.
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It was not uncommon to have a bunch of wet-haired people who were a bit sandy, maybe with salt crusted skin in class after the lunch break….
Surfing and Social Theory: Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide
It was different for women — surfing mattered but few surfed; there was always 6 or 7 netball teams and a couple of softball teams. But surfing was a different story: There was a trophy in foyer that seemed to grant credibility to this claim, and certainly by the time I left high school there was no competition. This, for me, was time to retreat from the surf beach to the other side of the tombolo and sail on the harbour. Even for those of us who felt this annual bond, spent huge amounts of time on and in the water and had good friends in the surf posse, the mystique of dancing and gliding on waves was incomprehensible — we did not experience the dream glide.
I welcome and embrace the aspiration to analyse surfing-as-practice through the lenses provided by contemporary social theory. I also welcome their eclectic, for the most part, deployment of theory. Some of what they do is conventional is academic work on surfing — the historical outline is widely known but as they note the consensus may be a little too clean, the discussion of subculture and of gender also fairly conventional and as such a useful presentation of a state-of-the-art of work on surfing.
Other aspects of the book are more innovative and as such significant — their location of surfing as an aspect of the enchanted sea, of seascapes, of the liminality of the beach, of the Romantic vision of the coastscape a little explored aspect of the Romantic invention of landscape is vital yet often glossed or presumed in explorations of surfing. There were several things that bothered me throughout the text. The first is that for a book that sets out to explore the experience and embodiment of surfing written by two surfers, their experience and embodiment is missing — there are a few end notes where they write themselves in, but their bodies and experiences are missing from the text.
This gap almost certainly limits the applicability and usefulness of the text. I accept here that I find figurational theory generally unhelpful and an impediment to explanations of change so others may not be as frustrated by its appearance, but for the most part I had trouble seeing what it added to this otherwise open engagement with a range of analytical approaches.
I would have liked a little more risk taking in their conclusions.
That said, the concluding chapter draws their case together well and outlines a number fruitful areas for new and further research — and as a result redeems itself to become a useful scholarly book but one that feels like a missed opportunity. Tristan Schenker rated it liked it Jan 05, Randall rated it really liked it Jan 19, Ty rated it did not like it Mar 25, Nero added it Feb 14,
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