Action Sports and the Olympic Games : Past, Present, Future (Hardcover)

1.?Introducing Action Sports and the Olympic Games 2.?Mapping Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Theoretical and Conceptual?Considerations 3.?Researching the Action Sports-Olympic Games Assemblage: A Longitudinal and Multi-Method Approach 4.?The History of Action sports and the Olympics Games 5.?Agenda 2020 and the Tokyo Announcement: Initial Responses and Debates in Action?Sport Cultures 6.?Action Sports and the Politics of Governance 7.?The Action Sports Industry: A Shifting Landscape 8.?Skateboarding, the Olympics and Flexible Opposition: The Sportisation of the Anti-Sport 9.?Surfing’s Paradoxical Journey from Alternative Lifestyle to Olympic Sport 10.?Developing Pathways to Tokyo: National Differences in the Professionalisation of?Self-Governing Action Sports 11.?Action Sports and the Opportunities and Challenges for Gender Equity 12.?Conclusion