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18. Surfing and Contemporary China

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. List of Abbreviations ix
  4. Acknowledgments xi
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I / Coloniality and Decolonization
  7. 1. On a Mission: Hiram Bingham and the Rhetoric of Urgency 29
  8. 2. A World Apart: Pleasure, Rebellion, and the Politics of Surf Tourism 47
  9. 3 .Kai Ea: Rising Waves of National and Ethnic Hawaiian Identities 62
  10. 4. Consolidation, Creativity, and (de)Colonization in the State of Modern Surfing 84
  11. 5. Decolonizing Sustainable Surf Tourism 109
  12. Part II / Race, Ethnicity, and Identity
  13. 6. Surfing beyond Racial and Colonial Imperatives in Early Modern Atlantic Africa and Oceania 135
  14. 8. Space Invaders in Surfing’s White Tribe: Exploring Surfing, Race, and Identity 177
  15. 9. Indigenous Surfing: Pedagogy, Pleasure, and Decolonial Practice 196
  16. 10. Appropriating Surfing and the Politics of Indigenous Authenticity 214
  17. Part III / Feminist Critical Geography
  18. 11. Surfeminism, Critical Regionalism, Public Scholarship 235
  19. 12. Desexing Surfing? (Queer) Pedagogies of Possibility 263
  20. 13. “My Mother Is a Fish”: From Stealth Feminism to Surfeminism 284
  21. Part IV. Capitalism, Economics, and the Commodification of Surf Culture
  22. 14. Free Ride: The Food Stamp Surfer, American Counterculture, and the Refusal of Work 305
  23. 15. The Political Economy of Surfing Culture: Production, Profit, and Representation 318
  24. 16. Soulful and Precarious: The Working Experiences of Surfboard Makers 342
  25. 17. Branded Primitives 365
  26. 18. Surfing and Contemporary China 386
  27. Bibliography 403
  28. Contributors 443
  29. Index 449
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