[csaa-forum] Bethany Geckle on "Skateboarding and the ‘other’" 27 June 11am NZT

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora,

Please join us for a research presentation from Bethany Geckle<https://miamioh.edu/profiles/ehs/bethany-geckle.html> (Miami University, OH) on the topic of Skateboarding and the ‘other’: Othered perspectives and other possibilities at
11am on 27th June (NZT) in Burns 4;
9am (AET); 7am (Singapore); 26th June 7pm (EST); 4pm (West Coast) (for other times click here<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20240627T11&p1=952&ah=1>).

For Zoom link please register here<https://forms.gle/TegdQQdTpCPzVXUC8>.

Ngā mihi

Rosie.

Abstract:
Skateboarding has been called an ‘alternative sport.’ Many alternative sports have garnered attention for their potential to challenge dominant hierarchies, norms, and power arrangements in sport, and create an ‘alternative.’ Skateboarders often reinforce this perception claiming ‘skateboarding is for everybody,’ declaring it a sort of ‘safe haven’ for misfits, and adopting an ‘anti-sport/anti-jock’ mentality. Yet, in many ways, skateboarding perpetuates hegemonic power arrangements that privilege cis/het white men from the Global North/West. Thus, in this talk I will center perspectives from marginalized or underrepresented actors within skateboarding that illustrate other possible social arrangements. This talk will address skateboarding as a more-than-human process, queer-worldmaking project, and decolonizing/indigenizing practice. Visibilizing these non-normative, less privileged skateboarding networks can bring forward the latent alternative potentials that are currently under-recognized and under-utilized in the dominant skateboarding culture and industry.

Bio:
Dr. Bethany Geckle is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Miami University of Ohio in the US. Her research explores themes of futurity, world-making, identity and belonging, and social change through music and physical cultures. She is particularly interested in how skateboarding can demonstrate other ways of being, doing, and relating which can generate more inclusive and equitable realities and futures for marginalized groups to thrive. Her work seeks to present ways in which our everyday leisure practices can transform conditions of possibility in accessible—and enjoyable—ways.


Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2021). Voicing the real in extreme metal<https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/c92d3d05-24b9-47af-b1cf-378523bacfba/content>. Continental Thought & Theory, 3(3), 136-163.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>

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