<pre><b style><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Cambria','serif';FONT-SIZE:14pt">CALL FOR PAPERS: The Subculture of Skateboarding (Edited Collection)</span></b></pre><pre><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Cambria','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"> </span></pre>
<pre><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">Due date: 1 November 2013</span></pre><pre><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"> </span></pre>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">In <i style>Skateboarding, space and the city: Architecture and the body</i>, the first academic monograph on skateboarding, Iain Borden noted that “academic and external records of skateboarding are extremely limited… there have been few historical accounts of its internal practices and development, still less of its wider social meanings” (2001, p. 4). Since then, many more studies on skateboarding have emerged from areas as diverse as urban design, sociology of sport, medicine, geography and youth studies. Academic discussion reveals various and often contradictory understandings of skateboarding: it is a multi-million dollar industry, recreational activity, sport, children’s pursuit, fad, underground movement, criminal activity, form of transport, and an aesthetic practice. Considered ‘extreme’ by corporations, yet not by those involved in the subculture (eg: <i style>Australian Skateboarding Magazine</i> editorial April 2003), skateboarding has become more ‘respectable’ as it is increasingly mainstreamed, yet is still considered in terms of resistance (to capitalist social relations, spatial control, and commodification, for example).</font></font></p>
<pre><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt"> </span></pre><pre><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt">This edited collection aims to provide a wide-ranging introduction to the theoretical understandings and critical explorations of the meanings, practices and subculture of skateboarding. I invite contributions which emphasise the cultural, social, spatial and political dynamics of skateboarding. Possible areas of research include (though are not limited to):</span></pre>
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<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Skateboarding as socio-political resistance</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Space – spatial tactics and practices, the production of space, representations of space</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Commercialisation</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Governance, policy and social control</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Fashion</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Gender relations</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Race</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Media</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Representations of skateboarding in popular culture (TV, film etc)</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Subculture</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Identity formation</font></font></li>
<li style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Ethnography</font></font></li></ul>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Submissions from diverse fields of study, including cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, architecture, urban studies, and history, are encouraged.</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><br><span class="quoted1"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Interested contributors should send abstracts of 300-350 words to Kara-Jane Lombard (</font></span><a href="mailto:k.lombard@curtin.edu.au"><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Times New Roman">k.lombard@curtin.edu.au</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="quoted1">) before 1 November 2013. Please attach a short biographical statement including your contact information, affiliation and recent publications. </span><br style>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Kara-Jane Lombard<span style> </span><span class="quoted1"></span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span class="quoted1"><a href="mailto:k.lombard@curtin.edu.au">k.lombard@curtin.edu.au</a></span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">School of Media, Society and Culture<span style> </span></font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Curtin University</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">GPO Box U1987</font></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Western Australia 6845<span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Cambria','serif'"></span></font></font></p>