Skateboarding beyond the limits of gender? Strategic interventions in Sweden

Bäckström, Åsa; Nairn, Karen

doi:10.1080/02614367.2018.1462397

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“…The Swedish ethnographic work also focused on skateboarding in multiple contexts and had sensoriality, learning, and femininity at its axis (e.g., Bäckström, 2013Bäckström, , 2014Bäckström, , 2018. The data collection took part in both outdoor and indoor skateparks, city environments, and other contexts related to skateboarding.…”

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Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Bäckström

Sand

2019

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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In this article, we draw from and develop existing ideas of spatial desire and emplacement to explore skateboarders’ skilful mobility and perceptive competence. By combining findings from Swedish and Danish ethnographic studies, we illustrate how skateboarders imagine and make new material encounters both in urban environments not originally built for skateboarding and in skateparks. These imaginations and makings include memories of previous material encounters and are a part of ongoing social negotiations, but they also have a component of imaginary novelty. Making and imagining are discussed as materialization and formation, which include the idea of active materials and sentient practitioners. Two types of material encounters were imagined and made: transitions and smooth lines. Subsequently, two characteristics of these types of encounters were described: “kind” and challenging. The processes of imagination and making took a mutual understanding for granted and deeply engaged the body in the ever-changing material environment. We argue that a conceptualization of spatial desire as emplaced and highly imaginable is fruitful for research on skateboarding and other movement cultures where engagements with materials come to the fore.

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Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Bäckström

Sand

2019

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…These interventions aimed to reduce unequal access to LTPA for a specific target group that was underrepresented in LTPA. In this review, we have identified studies of interventions in which the target groups were girls [62] and women [63], children and young adults with disabilities [64], ethnic minority youth, disabled young people, youth from socioeconomically deprived backgrounds [65], children in grades 3-5 in economically vulnerable neighborhoods [66] and looked after children [67].…”

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“…All six interventions in this category focused their resources on a specific target group and on reducing the barriers to access that arose in their situation. Two interventions targeting girls strategically used young women as role models in the design to address the low visibility of girls in the activities [62,63]. An intervention targeting children and youth with disabilities used able-bodied buddies to support the target group [64].…”

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“…Two out of six interventions in this category were based on target group involvement and ownership; both were interventions to reduce unequal access for girls/young women [62,63]. The remaining interventions in this category were led by teachers [65,66] or developed and implemented by professionals with a prior knowledge of the specific needs of the target group [64] or by government officials [67].…”

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“…The remaining interventions in this category were led by teachers [65,66] or developed and implemented by professionals with a prior knowledge of the specific needs of the target group [64] or by government officials [67]. Of the two interventions that involved the target group, one did so by asking the participants to express their needs and preferences in the process of designing the intervention [62], and the other was initiated and led by target group representatives (women skateboarders) [63]. Thus, various efforts were made to promote empowerment and ownership within the target group or in close proximity to them.…”

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Promoting access to leisure time physical activity (LTPA) opportunities for children and youth is crucial to promote public health. Yet, ensuring sustainable interventions in this field requires theoretically informed approaches to guide the processes of developing, implementing and evaluating LTPA programs. The objective of this review was to examine how concepts of equality and equity have been operationalized in LTPA interventions for children and youth in order to identify facilitating factors and barriers to LTPA access connected to such concepts. Using a pre-piloted search strategy, three electronic databases were searched for studies of interventions aiming to promote access to LTPA in organized or community sport for children and youth. Following a screening process, 27 publications representing 25 unique interventions were included. Through careful examination of the aim and target group of each intervention, they emerged in three categories in accordance with their (implicit) understandings of equality and equity. Also, considering the processes through which the interventions within each category had been implemented leads to the conclusion that an explicit theoretical understanding of the aim of interventions will increase communal knowledge among intervention stakeholders about which facilitating factors to pursue and barriers to bypass to contribute to more socially sustainable LTPA programs.

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Skateboarding beyond the limits of gender? Strategic interventions in Sweden

Cited by 25 publications

References 46 publications

Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Sustaining Equality and Equity. A Scoping Review of Interventions Directed towards Promoting Access to Leisure Time Physical Activity for Children and Youth

Defining a “Problem”: Girls’ Participation in Sport and Physical Education

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