The Trouble with Newcomers: Women, Localism and the Politics of Surfing

Olive, Rebecca

doi:10.1080/14443058.2019.1574861

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“…Lockdown exposed and amplified some of the underlying tensions in these communities, such as between surfers and non-surfers, ‘locals’ [ 68 ], and non-locals (variously defined), and those who are permanent house dwellers and so-called ‘freedom campers.’[ 51 ] The latter group, characterised on social media as ‘foreigners living in vans,’ were often accused of leaving their rubbish, and ‘unlike kiwi surfers’ had ‘no respect for the coastline’ (social media posts). The sense of ‘them and us’ between the coastal community and city dwellers, was highlighted in multiple posts, such as a lockdown ditty critiquing people coming to their holiday homes (attributed to Abby Lawrence), which was re-posted by a surfer on a community social media page and received over 100 ‘likes’.…”

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“…Furthermore, some blue-spaces are also sites where individuals and communities can be marginalised or excluded through various economic, political, cultural, and historic processes [ 31 , 50 , 56 ]. As research across diverse national contexts including England, Ireland, South Africa, USA, and Australia illustrates, coastal spaces can operate as places of white retreat and safety, e.g., [ 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ]. At a more local scale, beaches can be ‘colonised’ by activity groups such as surfers, fishers or users of off-road vehicles [ 71 ].…”

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Waiti

Olive

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Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Olive

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“…Such tensions in place-based identities can be prevalent in coastal areas with high number of visitors, as has been explored in terms of “localism” in surfing. Localism is the contradictory and deleterious side of place-connectedness, whereby “locals” develop, and even enforce, a sense of entitlement and authority over access to places, including histories related to colonization and racism (Beaumont & Brown, 2016; Evers, 2008; Olive, 2015, 2019). Blue spaces therefore impact wellbeing in a range of ways, that are not always beneficial.…”

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“…Milán and Rabadán use their project to extend current ideas of localism and explore “border localism, which arises from the social and cultural relations between surfers from two countries that share the same ocean border” (p. 8). In most surfing places, localism practices are defined clearly in terms of the place—the politics of belonging negotiated through layers of colonization, residency, skill level, gender, violence, and more can be clearly historicized and contextualized (Olive, 2019). In this case, we see the fluidity of blue spaces taking on a new aspect, with histories of culture, colonization, language, and residency playing out in very complex ways.…”

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“…The complex and often contradictory politics of “local” identities can also reflect broader national or regional relations and tensions. In settler-colonial societies, such as Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and Hawai’i, localism is linked to ongoing practices of activism against colonization and other forms of exclusionary power relations (Olive, 2019; Waiti & Awatere, 2019; Walker, 2011). Importantly, in many cultures, sexism and homophobia continue to shape access to oceans and coasts; belonging can be contingent on conforming to male-dominated and heteronormative ideals.…”

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Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

Olive

Wheaton

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This article introduces the special issue on ‘Understanding Blue Spaces’ which examines relationships between blue spaces, sport, physical activity, and wellbeing. The articles progress conversations across humanities, social sciences and inter-disciplinary areas of research on diverse sporting practices, that span local to trans-national contexts. This collection offers new insights into politics, possibilities, and problems of the role of blue spaces in our wellbeing—individually, socially, and ecologically. In addition to outlining the 10 articles in the SI, which include ocean swimming, surfing, sailing/yachting, and waka ama paddling, we contextualize this work, discussing key thematic areas both across these papers, and in the wider interdisciplinary body of work on blue spaces, wellbeing, and sport. Specifically, we outline the role of physical activities and leisure practices in how we access, understand, experience, and develop relationships to seas and oceans, as well as to self, places and communities of human and non-human others. We also discuss the ways in which particular bodies, individuals, and communities (human and more-than-human) are marginalized or excluded, and the need for understanding concepts such as wellbeing, place, and self beyond dominant European traditions. This SI highlights how localised experiences of blue spaces can be, while emphasising the need to recognize diverse cultural, economic, geographic, sociodemographic, and political factors that contribute to a disconnect with, or exclusion from blue spaces, impacting who can use blue spaces, how they can be used, how they can be researched, and how power is reproduced and contested.

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