Tag: isa

• 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