“Making waves” with burke: Surf Nazi culture and the rhetoric of localism

Exploring surfers’ perceptions of municipal regulations using grounded theory

“…(Preston-Whyte 2002;Usher and Kerstetter forthcoming;Warshaw 2003). The manifestation of localism in surfing is connected with crowding at surf breaks because surfing has become a popular sport (Alessi 2009;Nazer 2004;Scheibel 1995). The aggression by some local surfers at one of the most popular surfing areas which some of our study participants mentioned, First Street, could be considered localism.…”

Surfing between the local and the global: identifying spatial divisions in surfing practice

“…There is not the scope in this paper for a full review of the growing surfing literature, however Ford and Brown () and Stranger () offer important sociological insight into the phenomenon, while political critique is undertaken by Buckley (), Hill and Abbott () and Nazer (). Evers ( ) comments insightfully on the localist and cultural discourses within surfing lifestyles (see also Scheibel ; and Booth ), while surfing as an extreme sport is examined by Midol (), Rinehart and Sydnor (), Tomlinson () and Wheaton (). Surfing is acknowledged by these writers and those who participate in the sport as a lifestyle activity (see also Fordham ).…”

A Companion to Sport

“…Some scholars have explained embodied dress and language practices, as well as displays of cultural commitment, physical prowess, and risk taking, as contributing to the social construction and classifi cation of group identities within action sports fi elds (e.g., Beal and Wilson, 2004 ;Robinson, 2008 ;Thorpe, 2004 ;Wheaton, 2003b ). Others have examined the cultural politics involved in negotiating space and access to physical, social, and economic resources within hierarchically organized sporting, cultural, or industry contexts; the struggles among surfers seeking to navigate space in the "line up," and thus access to a limited number of waves, have been particularly well documented (see Ford and Brown, 2006 ;Olivier, 2010 ;Scheibel, 1995 ;Waitt, 2008 ). A few have examined the gender politics and hypermasculinity in high-risk natural environments, such as the backcountry for skiers ( Stoddart, 2010 ) and snowboarders , and big waves for surfers ( Booth, 2011 ;Stranger, 2011 ).…”