Skate/worlds: new pedagogies for skateboarding

Sander Hölsgens; Adelina Ong

doi:10.21827/656f071868dee

Skate/worlds: new pedagogies for skateboarding

Authors

Sander Hölsgens (ed)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8770-8110

Adelina Ong (ed)

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7027-9551

Synopsis

Skate/worlds brings together writers, educators, and activists who research skateboarding as a prefigurative learning tool. Can skateboarding be therapeutic? Does it align with efforts to queer and decolonise education? And how to parent as a skater? As the ecology of skateboarding expands and diversifies, the sensation of moving sideways gains socio-political and pedagogical relevance. This edited volume chronicles how we both learn to skate and learn from skateboarding – zooming in on topics including gestalt therapy, care work, motherhood, and grassroots advocacy.

Contributors: Åsa Bäckström, Rhianon Bader, John Dahlquist, Jessica Forsyth, Sophie Friedel, Arianna Gil, Sander Hölsgens, Lian Loke, Sanné Mestrom, Douglas Miles, Nadia Odlum, Adelina Ong, Noah Romero, Esther Sayers, Indigo Willing

Cover design: Judith Leijdekkers
Production support | Typesetting: LINE UP boek en media bv | Mirjam Kroondijk
Cover font: Abhaya Libre, by Pushpananda Ekanayake, Sol Matas, Pathum Egodawatta

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Author Biographies

Sander Hölsgens

is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is a co-director of Pushing Boarders, a platform and international conference tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. Sander’s writing on skateboarding has appeared in Skateism , ‍Vice , and Jenkem . He is the author of Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography and Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces (with Brian Glenney).

Adelina Ong

is an independent applied performance researcher who has been working with young people from low-income families in Singapore (2003 to present) and London. Her practice is inspired by placemaking practices like skateboarding and Death Cafes. She has published in ‍TRI ‍and Research in Drama Education (RIDE).