From criminality to creativity: how studies of surfer subcultures reinvented invention
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

This article explores the shifting context within which surfing subcultures have been surveyed and discussed. Once construed as paradigmatic examples of ‘deviant’ youth cultures, these subcultures have recently been lauded for their creativity, innovativeness and entrepreneurialism. The text shows how contemporary management theory, which aims to ‘reinvent invention’, fits into a genre previously established by criminological studies of surfers. This article also argues that the field of sports studies has mediated between these two social scientific disciplines: sports studies scholars have contributed to the reappraisal of surfing subcultures, being early in explicating the enterprising potential of the ‘subterranean’ values they espouse. Studies of surfing can thus be construed as instrumental in bringing about recent mutations within contemporary capitalism.

kulturstudier

idrottsvetenskap

sociologi

Företagsekonomi

Författare

Karl Palmås

Chalmers, Teknikens ekonomi och organisation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Sport in Society

1743-0437 (ISSN) 1743-0445 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 10 1290-1305

Drivkrafter

Innovation och entreprenörskap

Ämneskategorier

Annan samhällsvetenskap

DOI

10.1080/17430437.2014.849650

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