Waves of Belonging: Indigeneity, Race, and Gender in the Surfing Lineup

＂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＂--

Lydia Heberling is assistant professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. David Kamper is professor of American Indian studies at San Diego State University and author of The Work of Sovereignty: Labor Activism and Self-Determination at the Navajo Nation. Jess Ponting is associate professor and founder and director of the Center for Surf Research at San Diego State University. He is author of Sustainable Stoke: Transitions to Sustainability in the Surfing World.