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

Anderson, Jon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6052-5154 2014. Surfing between the local and the global: identifying spatial divisions in surfing practice. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39 (2) , pp. 237-249. 10.1111/tran.12018

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Abstract

Geography emphasises the spatial influence on human identity; however, this influence is often seen as exclusively terrestrial in nature. This paper focuses on a group of individuals for whom geographical identity is both terrestrial and littoral in constitution. It introduces how surfers’ identities are not only defined by the terrestrial co-ingredience of the shores that support their surfing activity, but also by the littoral space of the surf zone itself. However, due to advances in transport, communication and surf forecasting, surfers are increasingly global in their search for waves. The paper goes on to demonstrate the effect of this mobility on surfer identity. It outlines how mobility dislocates surfer identity from its ‘surf-shore’ moorings and produces in its place a routed but rootless ‘trans-local’ surf identity. The paper examines the tensions and contradictions that arise between these spatially divided surfing practices before commenting on how surfers’ shared affiliation to the littoral zone may offer the potential to reconcile them.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: surfing; mobility; local; global; practice; identity
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 0020-2754
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 08:32
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/53330

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