Becky Beal
Biographic Data
| ID | 254116 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Becky Beal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Becky |
| FAMILY NAME | Beal |
| SIGNATURE | BEAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, East Bay |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From "safe" to "brave" spaces
Through interviews with key stakeholders within skateboard organizations that explicitly attend to issues of diversity, access, and equity, this article explores pedagogical practices that undergird these organizations' programming for justice. More specifically, this article focuses on the interplay between the implementation of practices of exclusion to promote, ultimately, inclusion. In theorizing this pedagogical approach, this article discus…
Urban skateboarding, social enterprise groups, and community capacity-building in the San Francisco Bay area
Urban skateboarding’s current community includes a diverse range of participants and an ever-increasing array of “social enterprise” conglomerations involving city councils, private industries, and nonprofit organizations. We conducted a three and a half-year ethnographic study of San Francisco Bay Area skateboarding, in part, to understand how these evolving public-private entities use skateboarding to build “community relationships”. Research s…
Skateboarding LA
It Ain’t Just Black Kids and White Kids”
The recent emergence of “skurban” (the fusion of skateboarding and urban) reflects the racially diverse history and culture of skateboarding within urban areas in the United States. Skurban follows on from skateboarding’s integral link with the urban since the 1980s. We aver that urban skateboarding is now underpinned by proliferating racial formations that reproduce a version of masculine authenticity that is highly marketable. Through our inter…
The distinction of risk
This paper explores gendered relations and identities which evolved amongst street skateboarders. Drawing from Bourdieu, we suggest that various social fields such as ‘skateboarding media’, ‘D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) culture’, and ‘lifestyle/action sports’ overlapped and worked to maintain gendered divisions within street skateboarding based upon the logics of individualism and embodiment. Masculine habituses were most closely associated with risk‐…
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
Keeping It Real
This article examines the consumption of alternative sport's subcultural media. Our research is situated in the context of 'post' CCCS subcultural research which has explored how the media and the market are central to the authentication of popular cultural practices. Qualitative audience research was conducted with windsurfers from the UK and skateboarders from the US, examining the meanings that the niche magazines have for the participants of …
The Use of “Subculture” and “Subworld” in Ethnographic Works on Sport
Within sport ethnography, the term “subculture” has been employed so broadly that the term has lost much of its explanatory power. In this paper, we attempt to reclaim the explanatory powers of the concept subculture by differentiating it from the concept “subworld.” The paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the concept of subculture and subworld, proposes definitional distinctions, and finally makes recommendations for the use of these co…
The Promise Keepers' Use of Sport in Defining 'Christlike' Masculinity
This article analyzes how a fundamentalist Christian movement, the Promise Keepers, uses sport in its literature as a means of promoting a specific style of masculinity and male leadership, which is referred to as 'Christlike' masculinity. Two books foundational to the Promise Keepers' ideology, What Makes a Man and Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper, serve as the basis for this research. A critical feminist analysis is used to examine the ways i…
Disqualifying the Official
This paper describes some of the ways in which popular culture may be a site of social resistance. The subculture of skateboarding is described as one form of popular culture that resists capitalist social relations, and the skateboarders’ particularly overt resistance to an amateur contest provides a framework for characterizing their daily and more covert behaviors of resistance. Although social resistance has the potential to change dominant s…
Disqualifying the Official
This paper describes some of the ways in which popular culture may be a site of social resistance. The subculture of skateboarding is described as one form of popular culture that resists capitalist social relations, and the skateboarders’ particularly overt resistance to an amateur contest provides a framework for characterizing their daily and more covert behaviors of resistance. Although social resistance has the potential to change dominant s…
Keeping It Real
This article examines the consumption of alternative sport's subcultural media. Our research is situated in the context of 'post' CCCS subcultural research which has explored how the media and the market are central to the authentication of popular cultural practices. Qualitative audience research was conducted with windsurfers from the UK and skateboarders from the US, examining the meanings that the niche magazines have for the participants of …
The Use of “Subculture” and “Subworld” in Ethnographic Works on Sport
Within sport ethnography, the term “subculture” has been employed so broadly that the term has lost much of its explanatory power. In this paper, we attempt to reclaim the explanatory powers of the concept subculture by differentiating it from the concept “subworld.” The paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the concept of subculture and subworld, proposes definitional distinctions, and finally makes recommendations for the use of these co…
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
It Ain’t Just Black Kids and White Kids”
The recent emergence of “skurban” (the fusion of skateboarding and urban) reflects the racially diverse history and culture of skateboarding within urban areas in the United States. Skurban follows on from skateboarding’s integral link with the urban since the 1980s. We aver that urban skateboarding is now underpinned by proliferating racial formations that reproduce a version of masculine authenticity that is highly marketable. Through our inter…
From "safe" to "brave" spaces
Through interviews with key stakeholders within skateboard organizations that explicitly attend to issues of diversity, access, and equity, this article explores pedagogical practices that undergird these organizations' programming for justice. More specifically, this article focuses on the interplay between the implementation of practices of exclusion to promote, ultimately, inclusion. In theorizing this pedagogical approach, this article discus…
The Promise Keepers' Use of Sport in Defining 'Christlike' Masculinity
This article analyzes how a fundamentalist Christian movement, the Promise Keepers, uses sport in its literature as a means of promoting a specific style of masculinity and male leadership, which is referred to as 'Christlike' masculinity. Two books foundational to the Promise Keepers' ideology, What Makes a Man and Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper, serve as the basis for this research. A critical feminist analysis is used to examine the ways i…
Urban skateboarding, social enterprise groups, and community capacity-building in the San Francisco Bay area
Urban skateboarding’s current community includes a diverse range of participants and an ever-increasing array of “social enterprise” conglomerations involving city councils, private industries, and nonprofit organizations. We conducted a three and a half-year ethnographic study of San Francisco Bay Area skateboarding, in part, to understand how these evolving public-private entities use skateboarding to build “community relationships”. Research s…
Skateboarding LA
Disqualifying the Official
This paper describes some of the ways in which popular culture may be a site of social resistance. The subculture of skateboarding is described as one form of popular culture that resists capitalist social relations, and the skateboarders’ particularly overt resistance to an amateur contest provides a framework for characterizing their daily and more covert behaviors of resistance. Although social resistance has the potential to change dominant s…
The Use of “Subculture” and “Subworld” in Ethnographic Works on Sport
Within sport ethnography, the term “subculture” has been employed so broadly that the term has lost much of its explanatory power. In this paper, we attempt to reclaim the explanatory powers of the concept subculture by differentiating it from the concept “subworld.” The paper reviews the theoretical foundations of the concept of subculture and subworld, proposes definitional distinctions, and finally makes recommendations for the use of these co…
The Promise Keepers' Use of Sport in Defining 'Christlike' Masculinity
This article analyzes how a fundamentalist Christian movement, the Promise Keepers, uses sport in its literature as a means of promoting a specific style of masculinity and male leadership, which is referred to as 'Christlike' masculinity. Two books foundational to the Promise Keepers' ideology, What Makes a Man and Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper, serve as the basis for this research. A critical feminist analysis is used to examine the ways i…
Keeping It Real
This article examines the consumption of alternative sport's subcultural media. Our research is situated in the context of 'post' CCCS subcultural research which has explored how the media and the market are central to the authentication of popular cultural practices. Qualitative audience research was conducted with windsurfers from the UK and skateboarders from the US, examining the meanings that the niche magazines have for the participants of …
So You Can See How the Other Half Lives
MTV's popular television series 'Cribs' displays the homes of famous athletes and entertainers. 'Cribs' presents these male athletes and their households as exemplars of 'making it.' This article examines the representation of male athletes and how various types of 'successful' masculinity are conflated with race and class. We found two dominant models of successful masculinity, James Bond and Cool Pose. 'Cribs' clearly demarcates between Black a…
The distinction of risk
This paper explores gendered relations and identities which evolved amongst street skateboarders. Drawing from Bourdieu, we suggest that various social fields such as ‘skateboarding media’, ‘D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) culture’, and ‘lifestyle/action sports’ overlapped and worked to maintain gendered divisions within street skateboarding based upon the logics of individualism and embodiment. Masculine habituses were most closely associated with risk‐…
It Ain’t Just Black Kids and White Kids”
The recent emergence of “skurban” (the fusion of skateboarding and urban) reflects the racially diverse history and culture of skateboarding within urban areas in the United States. Skurban follows on from skateboarding’s integral link with the urban since the 1980s. We aver that urban skateboarding is now underpinned by proliferating racial formations that reproduce a version of masculine authenticity that is highly marketable. Through our inter…
Urban skateboarding, social enterprise groups, and community capacity-building in the San Francisco Bay area
Urban skateboarding’s current community includes a diverse range of participants and an ever-increasing array of “social enterprise” conglomerations involving city councils, private industries, and nonprofit organizations. We conducted a three and a half-year ethnographic study of San Francisco Bay Area skateboarding, in part, to understand how these evolving public-private entities use skateboarding to build “community relationships”. Research s…
Skateboarding LA
From "safe" to "brave" spaces
Through interviews with key stakeholders within skateboard organizations that explicitly attend to issues of diversity, access, and equity, this article explores pedagogical practices that undergird these organizations' programming for justice. More specifically, this article focuses on the interplay between the implementation of practices of exclusion to promote, ultimately, inclusion. In theorizing this pedagogical approach, this article discus…
Sociology (10 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)