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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Skateboarding"”.
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Contesting public space skateboarding, urban development, and the politics of play
… engaged in the production and regulation of skateboarding spaces in Chicago. Through participatory research, it chronicles social dynamics of contestation and accommodation grounded in the production of planned and found spaces. The study discusses skateboarding as an expression of creative …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
… thesis examines the informal sporting culture of skateboarding as a contested site of racial politics in the United States of America (US). Action sports scholars have long identified the ‘whiteness’ of this sport but rarely created space for the voices of people of colour (POC) within …
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Governance strategies towards organising for action sports: A national structure for New Zealand skateboarding
… in the sportisation and institutionalisation of skateboarding in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In 2016, the IOC announced that skateboarding would debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and its governance was given to the ISF World Skate (i.e. a partnership between the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports …
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Caracterización a nivel cinético y estabilométrico del gesto deportivo del skateboarding de deportistas de Bogotá
El skateboarding es un deporte que ha sido catalogado como deporte olímpico por el Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI). Como deporte nuevo en el país y a nivel olímpico se desconoce las características biomecánicas del deporte, situación que dificulta la toma de decisiones estratégicas enfocadas a …
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Figures of an(other) Play: Francis Alÿs's Children's Games, Skateboarding in Milano Centrale and Ugo La Pietra's Gioco dell'Uso
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Significados e experiências de lazer no contexto da prática do skate vivenciada por jovens na cidade de Natal/RN/Brasil
Leisure and skateboarding have the potential to shape the social identities of many young people, encompassing aspects such as pleasure, autonomy, sociability, and belonging. Considering the city of Natal, in Rio Grande do Norte (RN), this research reveals how the meanings and experiences of …
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Aggro Duality
<p>Aggro Duality features sculptures inspired by skateboarding and custom–automobile cultures. This body of work is inspired by the manufacturing process, physicality of materials, individual aesthetic, and attention to craft. Each sculpture in Aggro Duality is created through intensive …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… starting point is the male-dominated practice of skateboarding. Although a popular creation myth presents skateboarding as a subversive, socially resourceful activity born from the natural landscape (the riding of waves by surfers), it has since become consumed within a masculine commercial …
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Innovative Design: Design of a Press System and Molds to Produce a Skateboard Deck.
<p>Skateboarding is a passion for many people. Homemade skateboard machinery has been fabricated throughout the country. While the demand for skateboards is steady; there is a steady growth in the homemade skateboard deck market. The desire to create a one of a kind deck that expresses a person's …
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Rosslyn Waterfront Complex: Bridge the City and the River Architecturally
… jungle, humming while beatboxing, dancing, and skateboarding can also be great pleasures. However, as cities increasingly cover over nature with urban constructions, highways, for instance, they deprive people's right to access the river by erecting a barrier between city and nature. Citizens …
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Black & Boring
… watching indie movies with Aaron, smoking weed, skateboarding, and walking through different parks in the area. My life was more mundane and repetitive than it had ever been, but I’d never felt freer. This collection was written to celebrate my days of being Black and boring and combat the …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… his participation in and appropriating of skateboarding and web culture, Tyler denies common associations and stereotypes of blackness related to gangsterism which allowed him to become an internet phenomenon at the age of 19 with his music video “Yonkers” (2011). This study analyzes …
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Living to Ride: A Sociological Study of Freeriders in Missoula, Montana
… sport predecessors with commonalities such as skateboarding and snowboarding.</p>
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Living to Ride: A Sociological Study of Freeriders in Missoula, Montana
… sport predecessors with commonalities such as skateboarding and snowboarding.</p>
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Negotiating the Politics of Representation in Iranian Women’s Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution
… before the Islamic revolution of 1979, to the skateboarding vampire girl who makes a feast out of abusive men in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the representation of Iranian women on screen has changed drastically. This comparative study focuses on the politics of …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
… these confines; figures like Ana Lily Amirpour’s skateboarding, chador-wearing Girl or Gilda from Jewelle Gomez’s <em>The Gilda Stories</em> demand perception and prioritize radical humanization (both alone and within Othered communities)—often through reclaiming their Otherness by spurning …
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Youth and cities : planning with low-income youth and urban youth cultures in New York City and Paris
… their cultural activities, such as hip hop, skateboarding, pick-up basketball and graffiti. Combining empirical research with urban theory, the project seeks to develop a set of conceptual tools for understanding the relationship between youth, the state and the urban environment. Young …