Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for American children to pass the after-school hours. With family skateboarding in the San Francisco Bay Area as its focus, Moving Boarders explores this switch in stance, integrating first-person interviews and direct observations to provide a rich portrait of youth skateboarders, their parents, and the social and market forces that drive them toward the skate park.This excellent treatise on the contemporary youth sports scene examines how modern families embrace skateboarding and the role commerce plays in this unexpected new parent culture, and highlights how private corporations, community leaders, parks and recreation departments, and nonprofits like the Tony Hawk Foundation have united to energize skate parks—like soccer fields before them—as platforms for community engagement and the creation of social and economic capital. 

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Publisher

University of Arkansas Press

Year

2018

ISBN

9781610756532

Topic

Ciencias sociales

Subtopic

Sociología urbana

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Youth Sports and the Urban Skateboarding Landscape
One. Neoliberalism and the New Urban Spaces of Skateboarding
Two. Social-Enterprise Skateboarding Organizations: The Installation of New Public-Private Spaces for Youth and Community Development
Three. They Were All About Police, Police, Police . . . We Don’t Need Police, We Need Parents”: Bay City’s Adult-Organized Social Space
Four. “I Want the Platform and Everybody’s Welcome”: Oakland’s Creation of Skateboarding “Hood Cred”
Five. “There’s No End to The Pop Ups, the Towers, the High Rises, the Mid Rises, the Samsung’s and the Oracle’s”: Skateboarding in San Jose, “The Capital of Silicon Valley”
Six. The Use of Skate Park Spaces to Create New Values for Youth, Families, and Communities
Methodological Appendix
List of Interviews and Observations Appendix
Notes
Index