Abstract
University courses that the author teaches by using surfing and snowboarding history/culture as the classes’ focal points, originate this essay. The reader will learn about the courses’ focus on critique of hegemony, culture, sport’s nature/origin, and authenticity; and the reader will be provided examples of how gender and race studies permeate the courses. Intertwined throughout the work are thoughts on the epistemology and ontology of teacher-bodies; identification of key works and media; writings from students; and an accounting of the struggles involved in proposing an action-sports cultural-studies media course in a university fixated on industrial, scientific, and military endeavors. The author uses her long evolving engagement with Roland Barthes’ (1979, 2005) idea of “phantasmic teaching” to frame the chapter.
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Sydnor, S. (2016). Cultural Pedagogies—Action Sports. In: Thorpe, H., Olive, R. (eds) Women in Action Sport Cultures. Global Culture and Sport Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4_17
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