The ins and outs of skateboarding and transgression in public space in Newcastle, Australia

Criminal but Beautiful: A Study on Graffiti and the Role of Value Judgments and Context in Perceiving Disorder

“…That is, participants hold opposing opinions. On the one hand, we may expect that graffiti in a skate park is more readily accepted because it is seen as 'in place': graffiti is what one would expect in a skate park (Nolan 2003;cf. Cresswell 2009).…”

“…On the other hand, skate parks themselves may be problematic locations, associated with young males (often in themselves problematic in public space, see e.g. Binken and Blokland 2012) and unruly behaviour (Karsten and Pel 2000;Nolan 2003;Chiu 2009). Participants who tend to the negative pole of the scale thus may evaluate this graffiti negatively because their evaluation of the whole setting is negative.…”

Papers 98/1. Número complet

“…El discurs que fonamenta aquesta discriminació, segons argumenta Nolan, es basa en la masculinitat. Un ideal de superioritat masculina sura sobre l'skateboarding, fet que implica que la seva creació de la identitat es basi en l'exclusió a través de la construcció de l'alteritat, tant de forma misògina com homòfoba (Nolan, 2003). Com expressa Valentine: «repudiant unes identitats determinades poden formar-se les nostres pròpies identitats.…”

Waxing ledges: built environments, alternative sustainability, and the Chicago skateboarding scene

“…This article explores the social meanings of skateboarding in public spaces (Flusty 2000, Ferrell 2001, Woolley and Johns 2001, Stratford 2002, Nolan 2003, Stevens and Dovey 2004, Tonkiss 2005, Franck and Stevens 2007, Woolley et al 2011) and the Local Environment regulation of skateboarding through the emergence of skate parks (Jones and Graves 2000, Németh 2006, Howell 2008, Chui 2009, Taylor and Khan 2011 by focusing on the politics of children's play and sustainability-themed urban development in Chicago. Through ethnographic fieldwork consisting of participation in the Chicago skateboarding scene during 2009 -2010, this article chronicles how Chicago skaters both challenge normative regulation through an alternative ethic of care (Clement 1996) for built environments and conform to the dominant agenda of urban growth through sustainable development (Foster 2002).…”