Roll and Flow
The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing
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Roll and Flow is a 2024 edited volume (San Diego State University Press) that brings together leading scholars in surfing and skateboarding studies to analyze how these board cultures intervene politically in space, time, labor, and consciousness.
The book was catalyzed by skateboarder and surfer participation in Black Lives Matter actions and rethinks surfing and skating as material interventions rather than mere leisure.
Contributors connect theoretical traditions (e. g.
, Lefebvre, situationists) with historical and contemporary case studies, including psychedelic influences, anti-work currents, and direct-action moments.
The volume foregrounds how collective practices like paddle-outs and rolling protests reshape public space and alternative temporalities.
It serves as the first academic collection explicitly joining surfing and skateboarding scholarship under the rubric of cultural politics.
The book was catalyzed by skateboarder and surfer participation in Black Lives Matter actions and rethinks surfing and skating as material interventions rather than mere leisure.
Contributors connect theoretical traditions (e. g.
, Lefebvre, situationists) with historical and contemporary case studies, including psychedelic influences, anti-work currents, and direct-action moments.
The volume foregrounds how collective practices like paddle-outs and rolling protests reshape public space and alternative temporalities.
It serves as the first academic collection explicitly joining surfing and skateboarding scholarship under the rubric of cultural politics.
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Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
Mentioned by the editors (Roberts and Lawler) as the new edited volume framing skateboarding and surfing's cultural politics, prompted by 2020 activism.
Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
Mentioned by Michael Johnston and discussed by the editors as the 2024 anthology framing skateboarding and surfing cultural politics.
Michael James Roberts et al., "Roll and Flow: The Cultural Politics of Skateboarding and Surfing" (San Diego State UP, 2024)
