The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave-riding in
Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to the inauguration of surfing as
a competitive sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics-traverses the age of
empire, the rise of globalization, and the onset of the digital
age, taking on new meanings at each juncture. As corporations have
sought to promote surfing as a lifestyle and leisure enterprise,
the sport has also narrated its own epic myths that place North
America at the center of surf culture and relegate Hawai'i and
other indigenous surfing cultures to the margins. The Critical Surf
Studies Reader brings together eighteen interdisciplinary essays
that explore surfing's history and development as a practice
embedded in complex and sometimes oppositional social, political,
economic, and cultural relations. Refocusing the history and
culture of surfing, this volume pays particular attention to
reclaiming the roles that women, indigenous peoples, and people of
color have played in surfing. Contributors. Douglas Booth, Peter
Brosius, Robin Canniford, Krista Comer, Kevin Dawson, Clifton
Evers, Chris Gibson, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Dexter Zavalza
Hough-Snee, Scott Laderman, Kristin Lawler, lisahunter, Colleen
McGloin, Patrick Moser, Tara Ruttenberg, Cori Schumacher, Alexander
Sotelo Eastman, Glen Thompson, Isaiah Helekunihi Walker, Andrew
Warren, Belinda Wheaton
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