Tag: longboarding championship

• 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