Skateboard video : archiving the city from below / Duncan McDuie-Ra.
McDuie-Ra, Duncan, author.
2021
HT153 .M34 2021
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Title Skateboard video : archiving the city from below / Duncan McDuie-Ra.
Author McDuie-Ra, Duncan, author.
ISBN 9789811656996 (electronic bk.)
9811656991 (electronic bk.)
9789811656989
9811656983
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5699-6
Published Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-16-5699-6 doi
Call Number HT153 .M34 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary In crisp, engaging prose, McDuie-Ra recognizes the rich resource that skateboarding video provides for tracing urban transformation at a variety of scales. In framing such media as an unparalleled window on how our city spacesfrom the quotidian to the spectacularare experienced, McDuie-Ras analysis does what only the best urban research can achieve, offering a profound and previously ignored vantage point for understanding the intimacies that evolve between humans and their shared built environments. And it does so in the context of media and performances of urban skateboarding that are in turn masterful, subversive, obnoxious, artful, problematic, beautiful, and startling. John Carr, UNSW, Australia In this engaging and provocative work McDuie-Ras metaphor is powerful; here is a culture that documents itself "from below." By adopting the video camera as a ritual item, skateboarders have created an informal archive of urban life and social change. In studying these videos, the author invites us to become intimately familiar with the overlooked corners of cities across the globe, presenting an informal index of development and austerity, and an extraordinary resource for academic study. This clear and accessible voice questions the central tenets of skateboard culture, showing that through video, skateboarders can be responsible delinquents, and inclusive elitists who cherish and honour their history. A remarkable text that urges the reader to reconsider the ways we archive urbanism, occupy space, and think of race. Paul OConnor, author of Skateboarding and Religion In an era when footage speaks louder than words, McDuie-Ra convinces us that we can perceive and understand cities from an alternative, yet novel perspective. This is a highly readable and intriguing work for urban sub-cultural scholars interested in conducting media-based archival research or content analysis, as well as for those seeking an in-depth depiction of skaters embodied and socio-cultural experience. Chihsin Chiu, National Taiwan University Duncan McDuie-Ra is Professor of Urban Sociology, University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots (2021)
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Chapter 1 Introduction: Archiving the Urban Backstage
Chapter 2 Archiving Without Archives
Chapter 3 Archiving Urban Space
Chapter 4 Archiving Delinquency
Chapter 5 Archiving Diversity
Chapter 6 Conclusion.

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