‘Talking Shit over a Brew after a Good Session with your Mates’: surfing, space and masculinity

Waitt, Gordon R; Warren, Andrew

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“…Firstly, following Waitt (2008) and Waitt and Warren (2008) the gendered dimension of the local surfing career needs additional work to tease out the finding that while females and males in this community may all experience the same stages, they do so differently. However, as Ford and Brown (2006) state surfing culture is changing to become more open to females at the levels of everyday participation and competition.…”

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“…The category of local surfer, while often alluded to in research studies and the media, is seldom developed beyond the notion of geographical proximity to a specified surfing location. Moreover, literature focusing on local surfer behavior mostly does so to explore (often insightfully) specific themes such as localism (Olivier, 2010;Usher & Kerstetter, 2014), or the construction of masculinity (Waitt & Warren, 2008;Evers, 2009). Following Andrews and Ritzer (2007) the local surfer, can also be seen as a "glocalized" surfer due to the simultaneously localized and deterritorialized meanings and practices all of which have been interpenetrated by global cultural flows.…”

Section: The Local Surfer As An Ideal Typical Socio-spatial Identity mentioning

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‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

Beaumont

Brown

2014

Leisure Sciences

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This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study (2008-09) conducted in a village with a significant population of local surfers in Cornwall (Southwest England). Stimulated by Goffman's (1961) interpretation of the concept of career and elaborated by the work of Stebbins (1970) on "subjective career," Stebbins's (1982) framework of "serious leisure" and "serious leisure career" (Stebbins, 2005), we identify moments from local surfer careers lived in this community setting. We suggest that similar to findings from other subcultural studies on sports careers the local surfing career in this context contains shared experiential stages: the nurtured stage, the possible competitive stage, the serious leisure traveller stage, the responsible stage, and the legends stage. We conclude that the shared experiences and pathways of a local surfing career can play a positive cultural role, not just for individuals but also for the construction and maintenance of local community life.

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Section: The Local Surfer As An Ideal Typical Socio-spatial Identity mentioning

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‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

Beaumont

Brown

2014

Leisure Sciences

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“…The work of Evers (2004, 2009), Waitt (2008 and Waitt and Warren (2008) suggest -alongside the representations which frame knowledge of the surfalso crucial are: the physical wave form; the shape, age and fitness of surfing bodies; the influence of socialisation; and embodied knowledge. Drawing on the feminist philosopher Probyn (2000aProbyn ( , 2004Probyn ( , 2005, this work draws attention to the conceptualisation of the individual not as the isolated and insulated product of subjection, but we suggest more attention should be given to the agency of surfers, the non-human world and geography.…”

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‘Stand out, not up’: bodyboarders, gendered hierarchies and negotiating the dynamics of pride/shame

Waitt

Clifton

2013

Leisure Studies

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In this paper, bodyboarders who surf the breaks of the Illawarra, New South Wales talk about their surfing experiences. We are particularly interested in leisured exclusions. Bodyboarders' principal concern appears to be territorialisation of surf breaks and the legitimisation of bodyboarding in a sport where they are disavowed a 'real' surfing identity based on shortboarders' desire to claim superiority. The paper explores how bodyboarders' experiences of pride and shame articulate with understanding of space, self and masculinities. Alongside the physical environment of the surf break, interpersonal relationships between shortboarders and bodyboarders figure heavily in participant's negotiation and construction of their gendered identities. We argue how individual bodyboarders negotiate the pride/shame nexus has important implication for understanding gender and territorialisation of the surf.

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“…Underpinning talk of women, sex and blokey surfing cultures was the intensely heteronormative construction of space (Waitt and Warren 2008). Homophobic undercurrents were readily detectable in surfboard workshops.…”

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Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry

Warren

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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. (2016). Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry. Gender, Place and Culture: a journal of feminist geography, 23 (1), 36-54.Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry AbstractThis article examines the masculinities of male workers in the context of an emotionally rich form of labour: surfboard-making. Contributing to emerging research around the emotional and embodied dimensions of men's working lives, the article maps the cultural, emotional and embodied dimensions of work onto masculine identity construction. Combining cultural economy theory, emotional geographies and in-depth ethnographic methods, I reveal how surfboard-making has become a gendered form of work; how jobs rely on (and impact) the body and what surfboard-making means to workers outside of financial returns. Following a manual labour process, and informed by Western surfing subculture, commercial surfboard-making has layered onto male bodies. Men perform 'blokey' masculinities in relation with one another. However, doing manual craftwork evokes close, personal interaction; among co-workers but also through engagements with place and local customers. Felt, embodied craft skills help workers personalise boards for individual customers and local breaks. Beneath masculine work cultures and pretensions, surfboard-making is a deeply emotional and embodied work. Labour is dependent on haptic knowledge: sense of touch, bodily movement and eye for detail. Contrasting their blokey masculinity, surfboard-makers rely on intimate links between their bodies, tools, materials, customers and surfing places. These 'strong bodied' men articulate a 'passion' and 'love' for 'soulful' jobs, demonstrating how waged work comprises alternative masculinities, shaped by working culture, relations and labour processes. A cultural economy framework and emotionally engaged research approach are valuable for challenging hegemonic masculinity, important for achieving more inclusive, tolerant and equitable workplaces. Beneath masculine work cultures and pretensions, surfboard-making is deeply emotional and embodied work. Labour is dependent on haptic knowledges: sense of touch, bodily movement and eye for detail. Contrasting their blokey masculinity surfboard makers rely on intimate links between their bodies, tools, materials, customers and surfing places. These 'strong bodied' men articulate a 'passion' and 'love' for 'soulful' jobs, demonstrating how waged work comprises alternative masculinities, shaped by working culture, relations and labour processes. A cultural economy framework and emotionally engaged research approach is valuable for challenging hegemonic masculinity, important for achieving more inclusive, tolerant and equitable workplaces.2

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‘Talking Shit over a Brew after a Good Session with your Mates’: surfing, space and masculinity

Cited by 59 publications

References 14 publications

‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

‘Stand out, not up’: bodyboarders, gendered hierarchies and negotiating the dynamics of pride/shame

Crafting masculinities: gender, culture and emotion at work in the surfboard industry

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