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This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of city craft.

Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action â from rebellious interventionism to a critical engagement with sportification and the Olympics. Coalescing around skateboardingâs pedagogy of enskilment, the book examines what to make of the skaterâs way of sensing the city, of their bruised heels and scabbed elbows and of their sensory attunement to their friends and foes. Grounded in historical, anthropological, and phenomenological theories of body and space, it examines how skaters acquire somatic knowledge and socio-emotional resilience through their sonic and vibratory experience of the city streets. This sensory anthropolog

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 9/11/2024
      ISBN13: 9781032839721, 978-1032839721
      ISBN10: 1032839724
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      This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of city craft.

      Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action â from rebellious interventionism to a critical engagement with sportification and the Olympics. Coalescing around skateboardingâs pedagogy of enskilment, the book examines what to make of the skaterâs way of sensing the city, of their bruised heels and scabbed elbows and of their sensory attunement to their friends and foes. Grounded in historical, anthropological, and phenomenological theories of body and space, it examines how skaters acquire somatic knowledge and socio-emotional resilience through their sonic and vibratory experience of the city streets. This sensory anthropolog

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