The Point
Surfing, geography and a sensual life of men and masculinity on the Gold Coast, Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4938697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cécile Evers (0000-0002-7876-1649, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author), Clifton Evers |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 893-908 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360903305783 |
| OpenAlex | W2079222264 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 93 |
| References cited | 25 |
The beach has long been a privileged site in Australian culture, and surfers have become icons of it. These men are often referred to as straight as steel, strong as granite, austere and inviolate. Drawing on over three decades worth of surfing I unpack this hegemonic understanding of men who surf, and reveal in its place the importance of feelings and bodies to their lives. Through an analysis of going surfing I articulate the role feelings and bodies play in how men belong, how they bond with their 'turf', come to understand themselves as masculine, and how they learn to do masculinity
Aesthetics · Art · Feeling · Hegemonic masculinity · Hegemony · Masculinity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · History · Law · Outdoor and Experiential Education · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology
Maturing' a Sub-discipline
Shifting Sands? Theories and Concepts of Contemporary Life at the Water’s Edge
Swimming as an accretive practice in healthy blue space
Speed as an expression and texture of space
Embodied Intelligence and Self-Regulation in Skilled Performance
Intimacy on the Mats and in the Surf
Localism at New Zealand surfing destinations
‘You’re only falling into water!’
‘It’s not something I’m proud of but it’s … just how I feel’
Tools, strategies and a qualitative approach for revealing the emotions in unemployed men
Herramientas, estrategias y enfoque cualitativo para develar emociones en varones desempleados
Relationships between Recreation and Pollution When Striving for Wellbeing in Blue Spaces
The smell of polluted leisure in the Anthropocene
Full Issue
Estrategias Metodológicas e Instrumentos de Abordaje sobre Estudios de Emociones en Hombres
Masculinidades y emociones como construcciones socioculturales
From paradise to prison
Empathy and affect
Sea-level playing fields
Embodying hardcore
Women's recreational surfing
Swimming in a contained space
The original ‘secret spot’ on the edge of the desert
Presenting phenomenology
Yearning for care
Masculinity, ageing bodies, and leisure
Re-reading Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus
Surfing, masculinity and resistance at Cloud 9
Going with the transnational flow in Bondi Tsunami
Going surfing/doing research
This Sporting Life
Like father, like son
Masculine love and sensuous reason
Moving as a ‘scrawny, brown body’
The meat market’
Devout Muslim masculinities
Introduction
Crafting masculinities
Parkour, Masculinity, and the City
From post-game to play-by-play
Water is a conductor
Stand out, not up’
Young surfers finding their wave
Winning and losing
The emotional presence of nature
Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies
Questioning policy, youth participation and lifestyle sports
Surfers as Environmental Stewards
Polluted Leisure
Towards a critical geography of physical activity
Surfing between the local and the global
Straight–gay friendships
Weather, Light and Darkness in Remote Island Policing
Geographies of awkward encounters
I beat a Thai
Surfing and ocean-based death ritual
Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality
Embodiment and social and environmental action in nature-based sport
Coastal blue space and wellbeing research
It hurts so it is real
The limits of the body
The Social World of Outdoor Swimming
Swimming With the Bicheno 'Coffee Club
The embodied spatialities of being in nature
Transcending ethnicity through photography
Discharging Affect
Masculinity and affect
All at sea? Using seaborne mobilities to decolonialise national narratives in maritime museums
Reframing Surfing
There is no Zyzz
Post-industrial masculinities and gym culture
Relational Places
Extending the field of play
Toward new understandings of human-animal relationships in sport
Selling surf and turf
Young men's violence and spaces of addiction
If I go in like a Cranky Sea Lion, I Come out like a Smiling Dolphin
Multiple Mutating Masculinities
Lebanese Muslim
Saltando las olas
Australianité ', risque et masculinité chez les surfeurs de la Gold Coast (Australie)
Music Scenes, Space and the Body
Orientating to Assembling
A Cathartic Moment in a Man's Life
(Arm) Wrestling with Masculinity
Staying 'stoked
Surfing with Bourdieu! A Qualitative Analysis of the Fluid Power Relations among Surfers in the Line-Ups
Creating Our Own Lineup
Polluted Leisure and Blue Spaces
Maintaining Masculinities in Japan's Transnational Surfscapes
Action Sports, the Olympic Games, and the Opportunities and Challenges for Gender Equity
Foreign Locals
Surfistas Locales
Between Men
The Spatial Imperative of Subjectivity
Subculture
White Nation
Surfing in the Third Millennium
Gender Trouble
Surfing
Sick, Filthy, and Delirious
Men's Magazines at the Millennium
Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion
Surfing the Other
A Shifting Line Up
Rhythmanalysis
Constructions of surfing space at Durban, South Africa
The Cronulla Race Riots
Sporting Bodies
Men Who Surf
Enskilment at Sea
Locals Only! The Impact of Modernity on a Local Surfing Context
Masculinities, Bodies, and Emotional Life
Masculinities, Sport, and Emotions
Male Bodies
The Aesthetics of Risk
How to Surf
| Unique citing works | 93 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,81 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 92 |