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Journal Title
Dialectical Anthropology
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Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
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Abstract
Drawing on my fieldwork on surfing in Portugal, I zone in on a contradiction between surfing’s romanticized image as countercultural and (at least) at variance with capitalism by virtue of its association with nature and antithesis to work; and a reality of surfing’s comprehensive commodification, detrimental social and ecological effects, and buttressing of the very work-life it purportedly rejects. I argue that surfing’s representation as fun and liberatory is an alienated response to these entanglements in capitalism. Its packaging as a hard to communicate pastime whose appeal can only be accessed through corporal first-hand accounts reproduces precisely the obscuring effects of this alienation.
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Keywords
Surfing,Counterculture,Alienation,Pleasure,Portugal
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Anthropology - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| 2023.07780.CEECIND | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
