RT Article
T1 Street Skateboarding and the Aesthetic Order of Public Spaces
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 6
SP 1454
OP 1469
A1 Dickinson, Sharon
A2 Millie, Andrew
A2 Peters, Eleanor
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1838882677
AB Street skateboarders are often excluded from public spaces with skating viewed as anti-social or uncivil. In this article, we argue that it can also be regarded as problematic as it interferes with the look and feel of cities as promoted by late-modern capitalism. The article contributes to an aesthetic criminology by arguing that street skateboarding is itself an aesthetic practice, but that this practice challenges the functionality and aesthetic order of the city. The article is supported by evidence from interviews with skateboarders in Manchester, UK. The context is the duel position of skateboarding, being regarded as both deviant and serious leisure (for instance, featuring for the first time in the Olympics in 2021). Rather than criminalizing and excluding skateboarders, it is argued that their aesthetic appreciation of public spaces could add value to city life, that they see and feel the city in ways that ought to add to our emotional and affective appreciation of what it means to live in a city.
K1 skateboarding
K1 aesthetic criminology
K1 Exclusion
K1 deviant leisure
K1 Manchester
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab109