{"id":9492,"date":"2017-02-21T00:36:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T00:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/everydayhybridity-my-new-article-on-middle-aged\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:18:28","slug":"everydayhybridity-my-new-article-on-middle-aged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/everydayhybridity-my-new-article-on-middle-aged\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9492 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/everydayhybridity-my-new-article-on-middle-aged\/attachment\/9493\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_olghh2xLCl1r1keb3o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/everydayhybridity.tumblr.com\/post\/157306862022\/my-new-article-on-middle-aged-skateboarders-has\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">everydayhybridity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>My new article on Middle-Aged skateboarders has just been published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1012690217691780\">International Review for the Sociology of Sport<\/a>. The research explores the meaning of skateboarding beyond its common reproduction as a youth culture.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate to have the participation of a diverse selection of middle aged skateboarders across the world who gave their time to explain what skateboarding meant to them and what it is like being a skateboarder later in life. Throughout the research I was struck by how generous and enthusiastic my informants were, frequently directing me towards videos of blogs that echoed their passions and interests. I was similarly fortunate to have J. Grant Brittain provide permission for the reproduction of his legendary Animal Chin ramp photos. Thanks to all those who have helped.<\/p>\n<p>In addition I develop some theoretical perspective on the value of age as a form of social capital, or\u00a0\u2018temporal capital.\u2019 This suggests that subculturally older skateboarders can be valued, and can find value because of the time invested in skateboarding. Thus, in the face of ageing and injured bodies, older skateboarder are still able to carve out legitimacy and forms of authenticity.<\/p>\n<p>To provide a little taste of the content of the article I include a few quotes to provide some context.<\/p>\n<p>On what skateboarding teaches\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>I made friends with people that I would possibly not have otherwise made friends with, so there\u2019s a social mobility there that I\u2019m getting to know people that we have something in common, and it\u2019s a passion, and then finding out something else about some people, that\u2019s growing up, that\u2019s empathising I guess. It\u2019s trying to figure out who you are and who is everybody else\u2026 We met people from other towns. This is not something you do as a working class person, you don\u2019t really even meet people from the next school unless it\u2019s for the purposes\u00a0of combat\u2026 I\u2019ve always said that skateboarding was a fabulously democratic activity because of these reasons. It\u2019s not an expensive, but very sophisticated activity.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the meaning of skateboarding\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>I\u2019ve got 31 years of experience behind me at this point, so it\u2019s obviously not the same. But it feels a lot more like it did when I first started. It feels a lot more pure. It feels a lot more, almost integrated into me as a person\u2026 when I talk about skateboarding in this sense and what it means to me as a person in 2016 as a 42-year-old, it\u2019s when language really starts to break down\u2026 It\u2019s something that\u2019s beyond language and words.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the community\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Skateboarding seems to be able to hold that complexity you know, like people are allowed to<br \/>\nbe dysfunctional in skateboarding in a way that they\u2019re not in other activities. I mean it\u2019s like a<br \/>\nfucking community centre sometimes when you\u2019re at the skate park\u2026like a social security<br \/>\noffice.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>everydayhybridity: My new article on Middle-Aged skateboarders has just been published in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport. The research explores the meaning of skateboarding beyond its common reproduction as a youth culture. I was fortunate to have the participation of a diverse selection of middle aged skateboarders across the world who gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2t6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}