Tag: China

• Reconstructing Surfing

  Environmental justice, as opposed to simple environmentalism that can be co-opted by corporate consumerism to drive sales in the mode of greenwashing, understands that all forms of oppression are interconnected. That is, oppressions of race, sexuality, gender, class; oppressions that privilege heterosexuality and certain body types over others; oppressions that encourage (often in complicity via…

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  June 1, 2013

  Deconstructing Surfing, environment, Surfing

  Big Surfing, boycott, child labor, China, China Labor Watch, Cori Schumacher, Cotton, deconstructing surf fetishism, environmental justice, environmentalism, ethical surfing business, forced labor, GMOs, india, Not 4 Sale, patagonia, quiksilver, reconstructing surfing, Reef, roxy, surf clothing, surf industry, surfing, Vans, VF Corporation

• strange imperialism and neoliberal ethos of the Surf Industrial Complex

  Image: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net “Surfing is good for the world.” -Fernando Aguerre When I decided to boycott the women’s longboard championship in China last year, I received an email from the then ASP World Tour CEO, Brodie Carr, who suggested that I “proactively go there [China] as an ambassador of a sport that possesses…

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  January 19, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Environmental Justice, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, asp world tour, brodie carr, China, Cori Schumacher, Duke, duke kahanamoku, Fernando Aguerre, isa, longboarding championship, Richard Grellman, sri lanka, surf imperialism, surf neoliberalism, surfer, surfing, WHK Group, Women on waves

• China and Big Surfing

  

  “Sports themselves are not political, but they have important political functions. The close connection between sports and national identity takes different forms in different countries at various stages of development, and in China it has special significance. The phrase ‘a weak country has no sports’ has particularly painful associations for Chinese people [owing to China’s…

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  January 5, 2012

  Deconstructing Surfing, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, ASP Prime, Big Surfing, billabong, boycott, China, Cori Schumacher, Fernando Aguerre, Hainan, isa, liu xiaobo, no enemies, no hatred, quiksilver, SIMA, surfing, wanning, World Games

• “Standing Her Ground”: Curl Magazine #31

  (This interview about women in surfing and my decision to boycott the ASP World Tour, was just published in the summer issue of Curl Magazine. There is no online access to this article so it is being reprinted here, with the images and captions provided in the article. I have also added links throughout the…

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  December 17, 2011

  Feminism, Interviews/Articles, Politics, Surfing

  ASP, association of surfing professionals, boycott, brodie carr, carissa moore, Chelsea Williams, China, chinese government, Cori Schumacher, Curl Magazine, Feminism, Hainan Island, human rights, Kassia Meador, Lindsay Steinriede, longboarding, new york times, nike, one child policy, shortboarding, SIMA, surfing, the inertia, volcom, women in boardsports, women’s longboarding, women’s rights, women’s rights without frontiers, women’s shortboarding, zach weisberg