Indigo Willing's research while affiliated with Griffith University and other places
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Publications (24)
In this chapter, we conclude our exploration of skateboarding, power, and change with some final reflections on the implications and significance of this research, as well as offering recommendations for future research. Our discussion is presented within the following themes and sections: 1) Key Findings and Contributions to the Research Field, 2)...
This chapter offers a brief history of skateboarding in the US, with its evolving social dynamics and key flashpoints of change through four main themes: (1) the California scene and the emergence of the skate industry, (2) from underground subculture to scene with market power, (3) expanding, transgressive and progressive horizons in skateboarding...
In this chapter, we introduce the “change-makers” we interviewed for this book. Our discussion is presented through the following themes: (1) Icons of Change in Sport and Counterparts in Skateboarding, (2) Change-Makers as Cultural Beacons and Guides, (3) Icons, Iconoclasts, and Breakthrough Figures, (4) Strategists and Community Builders, and (5)...
This chapter explores the critical reflections skateboarders have on trying to effect social change, the strategies they adopt, the degrees of progress they accomplish, and how they envisage power can be attained and shared. Our discussion unfolds in three parts: (1) “De-centering Established Power,” (3) “Change-Making in Media, Creative Landscapes...
In this chapter we look at the formative experiences of the individuals we spoke with. The discussion is presented through four main themes: (1) Defiance Labor and Flexible Forms of reflexivity, (2) Becoming a “Skateboarder” and Early Social Barriers, (3) Internalizing Negative Attitudes, (4) Joy, Gratitude, Tenacity, and Resistance, and (5) Radica...
Skateboarders and scholars recognize skateboarding is invested with flexible meanings and has the overlapping status of being a subculture, and a lifestyle, action, and competitive sport. Our discussion is presented in four themes: 1) The Sociology of Skateboarding, 2) Skateboarding Researchers as “Insiders” in the Culture, 3) Methodological Consid...
This chapter explores various advice and insights skateboarders share as important to keep up the momentum in their efforts to bring social change to skateboarding. In doing so, they provide roadmaps and an inclusive picture of a future that skateboarding can achieve. Our exploration is discussed through three main themes: (1) Door Opening and Thin...
Infographic Created by Fanny Didou and support by the Green Futures Network at the University of Exeter.
Derived from the paper 'Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure' (2022) by Paul O'Connor, Clifton Ever, Brian Glenney, Indigo Willing
https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2022.2153906
Forms part of the presentation for...
Skateboarding is a popular form of active transportation and recreation that reinterprets the use of public obstacles like stairs, rails, and planters for play. Through active leisure, skateboarding provides physiological, social, and emotional benefits. However, cities regulate and design out the activity through legal and architectural interventi...
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of 'grey spaces'. We provide evidence of how skate-boarding demonstrates a greyness-political and environmental ambiguities , contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes-to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure...
Willing, I. Fronek, P. and Skrbiš, Z. (2020). Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism and Racialised Belongings: A Study of Transnationally Adoptive Parents in Multicultural Australia. In J. Wills, T. Hübinette & I. Willing, Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, the Americas and the Pacific (p. 44-68). Minnesota: University of Michigan Press
This article examines the 1995 fictional feature film Kids, which locates its story in skateboarding culture. The film reached its 25th anniversary in 2020; it is directed by Larry Clark and written by Harmony Korine, both recognizable figures in skateboarding, and it featured a cast of youth from the New York skateboarding scene. The research anal...
Research on cosmopolitan practices and non-white refugee and migrant populations in Western nations often concentrates on how the mainstream ‘host’ culture practise openness and hospitality towards ‘new’ and minority populations. Reflecting the relationality at the heart of cosmopolitanism’s conceptual promise, this research reverses the gaze back...
Skateboarding has emerged from an alternative subculture to an influential action sport, boosted by recent inclusion in the Olympic Games. Central to debates in both academic and practice communities are the tensions between skateboarding as a lifestyle and ethos, and skateboarding as an Olympic discipline. This article presents a thematic analysis...
This article extends current discussions of ageing through a study of the continuing involvement in skateboarding of individuals who are no longer young adults. We qualitatively examine The Tired Video which features older and mostly middle-aged male skaters as our case study. This is done in light of discourses of ageing and a lack of studies exam...
This article provides an account of interwoven and often competing repertoires of cosmopolitanism and nationalism on which Australians draw when encountering diversity. Using interview and focus group data the article first explores how the notion of Australianness grounded in civic virtues such as fairness, openness and egalitarianism effectively...
This study contributes to the growing research on everyday cosmopolitanism in diverse societies. We employ a cosmopolitan encounters framework to explore the reflexive openness people perform and the ethical reasoning they draw on to get along with each other. In particular, we look beyond pleasurable cosmopolitan pursuits to consider encounters th...
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-intercountry-adoption-debate
Encounters are an important part of the texture and form of social life, in a global world where opportunities for people to foster positive cosmopolitan outcomes are increasingly visible and accessible. The concept of cosmopolitan encounters offers a grounded way to understand the everyday dimensions of cosmopolitanism through considering certain...
Multiple formations of family have always been a part of Australia's social and historical landscape, yet social norms typically function to marginalise some family forms while according others a privileged status. Marginalisation on the basis of sexuality, for example, whilst arguably somewhat less prevalent than in previous decades, nonetheless c...
In contemporary cosmopolitanism research, cities are iconic places where cosmopolitan exchanges and actors find their ‘natural’ milieu. Farmers not only are remarkably absent from this literature but have been depicted as operating with a highly localist and agrarian world view and being strongly connected to the land and the farm through history,...
This review surveys sociological literature on intercountry adoption from 1997 to 2010.
The analysis finds a preponderance of literature from the United States, reflecting its
place as a major receiving country, and a focus on adoption experience organised by
reference to the adoption triad: adoptive parents, adoptees, birth families. Reflecting th...
Citations
... All three types of communitas can be found among participants in music festivals (Wu et al., 2020). Other leisure and sports activities, such as kayaking, surfing, and skateboarding, also activate liminality and build community among participants that extends beyond the existing social hierarchy (Beaumont & Brown, 2016;O'Connor et al., 2022;Sang & Huang, 2022;Varley, 2011). ...
... The emerging literature on Black African migrant experiences in Australia highlights not only the precarities of conditional belonging, constant boundary-work and the result-ing experiences of battle fatigue that they must contend with on a variety of systemic and quotidian levels, but also the variety of strategies of resilience that are employed in response to these challenging circumstances. Among the solutions highlighted in the literature are finding belonging and solidarity within tightly-knit migrant communities [43] to enable enough agency to exercise rights of governmentality over space, and developing a 'negotiated' or 'hyphenated' borderlands identities 'so that both cultures can become a part of how they inhabit space in Australia' [63]. As we have also highlighted in this paper, there are significant implications for public health policy and practice in understanding and combating the impacts of racism in order to support the wellbeing and health of Black African migrants. ...
... Skateboarding's rebellious ontologies (ways of being) and epistemologies (ways of knowing) have grown alongside public demands for its regulation and its burgeoning commercial appeal (Chiu, 2009;Willing, Green, & Pavlidis, 2019). Chiu (2009) notes that while skateboarders redefine the purpose of public space, their transgressions have inflamed reactionary politics of exclusion. ...
... However, skateboarding can be radically -both organically and consciously -politically inclusive. For example, incorporating spaces for older 'greying' skateboarders (O'Connor, 2017;Willing et al., 2018), and ethnic and sexual minorities (Geckle, 2021;Williams, 2020). In recent years, the skateboard industry has been redressing a long-standing gender bias, sponsoring ever-increasing numbers of women and non-binary skateboarders, and embracing what has been non-hegemonic marginalised skate media by incorporating it into mainstream skateboarding media (White, 2020). ...
... A supporting and overlapping problematization was that the use of meat and dairy terminology on APs unfairly leverages, appropriates and undermines the reputation of Australian meat and dairy products and sectors. "Fairness" and egalitarianism are values tied to Australian culture (Plage et al. 2017). As one submission put it "We need to level the playing field between these synthetic and plant-based products and real meat. ...
... Drawing on the vast literature on conviviality, Samanani (2023) argues that convivial relations in urban spaces harbor emancipatory potentials for their power of imagining situated belongings that challenge the racist logic, where difference is not antagonized. While it has been suggested that not all encounters with diversity promote a cosmopolitan understanding of conviviality (Erel 2011;Plage et al. 2016), an ethics of "giving" inherent in the host/guest dichotomy needs to be replaced by an ethics of "sharing" to establish horizontal ties (Plage et al. 2016). ...
... (Pinto Filho et al., 2020;Baccar et al., 2020;Cuéllar-Gálvez et al., 2018;de Marco Larrauri et al., 2016;Kata & Wosiek, 2020;Keiko Yamaguchi et al., 2020;Kelemen et al., 2008;Larcher et al., 2019;Methorst et al., 2017;Souto et al., 2015;Stahelin et al., 2015) É necessário desenvolver técnicas sustentáveis para reduzir os impactos ambientais e promover a produção e a geração de riqueza no meio rural, a fim de atender às preocupações ambientais das comunidades (Cuéllar-Gálvez et al., 2018). (Broderick et al., 2011;Cheshire et al., 2014;Clemente, 2012;De Rosa et Nas pesquisas sobre empreendedorismo rural e agricultura familiar, são abordados temas como políticas públicas de desenvolvimento al., 2019;Discua Cruz et al., 2020;Hovardaoglu & Calisir-Hovardaoglu, 2021;Langford, 2019;Manfrin et al., 2019;Petit et al., 2018;Seuneke et al., 2013;Sippel, 2016) rural, comportamentos empreendedores no meio rural, práticas sustentáveis e ecológicas dos agricultores familiares e tecnologias de informação e comunicação no empreendedorismo rural (Appel et al., 2020;Lans et al., 2017;Seuneke & Bock, 2015;Suess-Reyes & Fuetsch, 2016 ...
... LGB family members, including LGB parents, reported similar experiences of feeling stigmatised, marginalised or excluded in education settings Riggs and Willing 2013). Examples included children in LGB families being told not to discuss LGB-related matters at school , or men in same-sex relationships being told they cannot be distinguished from each other by teaching staff (Riggs and Willing 2013). ...
... The adverse impact on parents and families who lose their children to adoption and adoptees have only relatively recently been recognized by researchers. 3 Intercountry adoption is promoted as a welfare solution for individual children that focuses on the best interests of children but functionally meets a demand for other people's children as a way of forming families for the many potential adopters. 4 Ensuring steady, expedient and reliable intercountry adoption programsperceived as "services" by which adults access childrenhas become the dominant focus in receiving countries. ...