From the Street to the Stadium and Back Again? The Neoliberalisation of Skateboarding

该项目旨在批判性地分析滑板被纳入奥运会将如何影响亚文化的一致性和社区，以及它与城市管理的关系。这里的争论是，这种包容代表着新自由主义政权在滑板亚文化中进一步根深蒂固。因此，这个项目将更广泛地展示新自由主义对城市亚文化活动的影响，包括它们如何改变或适应新创造的城市空间。提出了一个三管齐下的分析框架，每个框架都是新自由主义思想的一个关键特征：竞争，探索竞争加剧可能如何影响城市滑板运动员的社会行为；调解，关注全球企业调解滑板在城市规模社区中造成阻力的程度；以及身份政治，研究将滑板纳入奥运会是否会对社会经济认同产生影响。这三项结合在一起，将提供一个概念性的分析，即滑板运动的空间和实践将如何通过将其纳入奥运会来应对其新自由主义。该项目将在方法上高度参与，在两个关键地点-伦敦和东京-采用访谈和深入的民族志方法

This project seeks to critically analyse how the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympics games will affect the subculture's coherence and community, and its relationship with urban governance. The contention here is that this inclusion represents further entrenchment of the neoliberal regime within the skateboarding subculture. As such, this project will exemplify the effect of neoliberalisation on urban subcultural activities more generally, including how they may change or adapt to the new urban spaces that are created. A three-pronged analytical frame is proposed, each of which is a key characteristic of neoliberal thought: competition, exploring how increased competition may impact upon the social behaviour of urban skateboarder; mediation, concerned with the extent to which global corporate mediation of skateboarding creates resistance in the urban scale community, and finally identity politics, examining if inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games has an effect on socio-economic identities. Together, these three combined will offer a conceptual analysis of how the spaces and practices of skateboarding will respond to its neoliberalisation via its inclusion into the Olympic Games. The project will be highly involved methodologically, adopting interviews and an in-depth ethnographic approach in two key sites - London and Tokyo