@article{ref1,
title="Beyond the youth culture: understanding middle-aged skateboarders through temporal capital",
journal="International review for the sociology of sport",
year="2018",
author="O'Connor, Paul",
volume="53",
number="8",
pages="924-943",
abstract="Responding to the call of Wheaton to discuss the position of older participants in lifestyle sports, this research presents an analysis of the experiences of middle-aged skateboarders. Through qualitative interviews, ethnographic observation, and discourse analysis of skateboard media, skateboarding is revealed to be an integral part of the biographies and identities of middle-aged skateboarders. These accounts challenge the imaging of skateboarding as a youth culture and indicate that age and time have an important currency to skateboarders. The value of age is not confined to middle-aged skateboarders but is also observable in skateboard media which corresponds with the values held more broadly in skateboard culture. The concept of temporal capital is proposed as a way to make sense of the experiences of middle-aged skateboarders, highlighting how time is at once a path to subcultural authenticity, but also a resource to be managed and scheduled for their continued engagement in skateboarding.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1012-6902",
doi="10.1177/1012690217691780",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690217691780"
}