Title
Book review : Gregory J. Snyder : Skateboading LA : Inside professional street skateboarding
Document Type
Book review
Source Publication
Critical Criminology
Publication Date
1-2018
Volume
Advance online publication
First Page
1
Last Page
3
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
O'Connor reviews the book Skateboading LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding, written by Gregory J. Snyder.
Academic tomes on skateboarding are few and far between. While there are plenty of books on skateboarding art, biographies of skateboarders, and more general texts on “lifestyle sports”—which are known for their risk, personal freedom, and anti-regulation—monographs exploring skateboarding are rare. All the more significant about this new release from Gregory J. Snyder, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Baruch College, City University of New York, is the fact that it engages with the core world of professional street skateboarding. This could seem like a niche issue, but as the author deftly explains, what happens in professional skateboarding is of direct consequence to the subculture—and sport—as a whole. More broadly, this book should be of interest to an increasingly wide audience of academic and general readers, as skateboarding confidently shakes off the shackles of its underground and criminal associations and prepares its debut in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
DOI
10.1007/s10612-018-9385-z
Print ISSN
12058629
E-ISSN
15729877
Publisher Statement
Copyright © Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018. Online access to this article has been shared by the author(s) via Springer Nature SharedIt.
Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
O’Connor, P. (2018). Book review: Gregory J. Snyder: Skateboading LA: Inside professional street skateboarding. Critical Criminology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9385-z
