14 Nov 2019 Jahr - Urban skateboarding, social enterprise groups, and community capacity-building in the San Francisco Bay area

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By Matthew Atencio
In Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, Volume 42, Issue 3, pages 432-449
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2019.1682251

Urban skateboarding’s current community includes a diverse range of participants and an ever-increasing array of “social enterprise” conglomerations involving city councils, private industries, and nonprofit organizations. We conducted a three and a half-year ethnographic study of San Francisco Bay Area skateboarding, in part, to understand how these evolving public-private entities use skateboarding to build “community relationships”. Research suggests that social enterprise groups aim to develop social capital in underserved urban contexts. Community capacity development encourages social capital, but more intentionally addresses the emergence of socially inclusive and democratic values as well as socially aware learning cultures to benefit youths and their local communities. We used two Oakland, California, case studies of For the Town (FTT) skateboarding and the Skate Like a Girl (SLAG) organization, to exemplify how community capacity-building strategies and practices may occur within urban skateboarding, while also highlighting challenges to this type of practice.

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