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Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1473992
This article is part of the Research Topic Skateboarding and Society: Intersections, Influences, and Implications View all 3 articles

Re-thinking Discourses of "Youth" within (Adult) Regulation of Skateboarding

Provisionally accepted
Robert Petrone Robert Petrone *
  • University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

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    Situated within the context of increasing "adult regulatory practices" in skateboarding, this article draws attention to and interrogates the ways normative ideas of "youth," "adolescence," and "youth/adolescent development" often interplay with such efforts. In doing so, this article offers a critique, from a Critical Youth Studies perspective, of dominant, developmentalist notions of youth that typically cast young people as deficits in need of specific forms of intervention and surveillance. The article concludes with areas of inquiry emergent from critiques of dominant renderings of youth to be considered when engaging in processes of forming regulatory programs, policies, and practices related to skateboarding.

    Keywords: youth & adolescence, Youth, Skateboarding, regulation, Youth as metaphor

    Received: 31 Jul 2024; Accepted: 03 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Petrone. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Robert Petrone, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

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