Waves of Belonging

"As an emerging field of study, critical surf studies was initially shaped by its first field-defining volume The Critical Surf Studies Reader's release in 2017. Changes to critical conversations about race, Indigeneity, and sexuality studies as well as to the surfing scene have made for an active and dynamic field of inquiry. In purposefully centering Indigenous peoples, and the fact that surfing originated as an Indigenous activity, this collection then expands outward to think with issues of race, gender, and sexuality across geographies and cultures"--