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Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia Consumption and Sustainability in Asia CONSUMPTION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN ASIA McDuie-Ra Duncan McDuie-Ra Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia in Asia Endless Spots Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia Consumption and Sustainability in Asia Asia is the primary site of production of a myriad of commodities that circulate the globe. From cars and computer chips to brand clothing, material objects manufactured across Asia have become indispensable to people’s lives in most cultural contexts. This mega production generates huge amounts of waste and pollution that threaten the health and lifestyle of many Asians. Yet, Asia is not only a site of production, but also one of the most rapidly growing consumer markets. This series focuses on consumption – the engine propelling Asia onto the world economic stage – and its implications, from practices and ideologies to environmental sustainability, both globally and on the region itself. The series explores the interplay between the state, market economy, technologies, and everyday life, all of which have become defining facets of contemporary Asian culture. Shifts in consumption that have taken place across Asia since the 1950s onward have had a deep impact on new and emerging informal economies of material care, revealing previously invisible sites of innovation, resistance and co-option. The series will bring together studies by historians, anthropologists, geographers, and political scientists that systematically document and conceptualize Asia’s engagement with consumption and sustainability in the global environment. Series Editor Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden University Editorial Board Assa Doron, Australian National University Nir Avieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia Endless Spots Duncan McDuie-Ra Amsterdam University Press Cover photo: Thai pro-skater Joseph Sirinut frontside boardslide Photo by Janchai Montrelerdrasme; used with permission Cover design: Coördesign, Leiden Lay-out: Crius Group, Hulshout isbn 978 94 6372 313 8 e-isbn 978 90 4855 153 8 (pdf) doi 10.5117/9789463723138 nur 740 © Duncan McDuie-Ra / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2021 All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the written permission of both the copyright owner and the author of the book. Every effort has been made to obtain permission to use all copyrighted illustrations reproduced in this book. Nonetheless, whosoever believes to have rights to this material is advised to contact the publisher. Dedicated to Kimeri. Who has never pushed mongo. Since day 1. Table of Contents Acknowledgements 11 1 Urban Asia: Endless Spots 13 Escaping the California Gridlock 22 (Re)Mapping Asia Through Spots 31 Structure of the Book 37 2 Shredding the Urban Fabric 41 Spots: Urban Landscapes Below the Knees 43 Infrastructure’s Adjacent Publics 46 Splicing the Map 53 Life on Video, Life Online 57 Conclusion 62 3 Chasing the Concrete Dragon 63 From Chinese Consumers to Consuming China 65 Skateboarding at Shenzhen Speed 69 Endless Spots, New Cartographies 75 Communist Wonderland 83 Conclusion 88 4 Spectacle Cities: The Luxury of Emptiness 91 Central Asian Spectacles 93 Emptying Dubai 100 Dubai Unreal 107 Spectacle and its Others 111 Conclusion 112 5 For the Love of Soviet Planning 115 Post-Soviet Urban Space from Below (The Knees) 118 Independence Square (Tashkent) 119 Ala-Too Square (Bishkek) 123 The Outer Grid 128 Haunted Spots 130 Conclusion 137 6 Skateboarding’s New Frontiers 139 Iran: Revolutionary Modernity 143 India: Rough Cut Modern 148 Shredding the Architecture of Occupation 157 Conclusion 161 7 Conclusion: Another ‘Next China’ 165 Real-time Blues 168 Endless Spots, Endless Search 171 Bibliography 181 Skate Videos and Media Files 181 Published Sources 187 Index 203 List of Images Image 1.1 Jasper Dohrs in Chengdu, China in Preduce skate- board’s Supermix 27 Montrelerdrasme, 2018; screenshot; used with permission Image 1.2 The Preduce ‘Skate Park’ Map of Bangkok 28 Preduce, 2019; used with permission Image 2.1 Waxed marble ledges outside Vincom Center in Ho Chi Minh City, 2018 45 Photo: Author Image 2.2 Navigating the crowd to skate the variation in the pavement. Go Skate Day in Singapore 2018 48 Video by author; screenshot Image 3.1 Rodrigo Petersen’s name on the famous Deng Xiaoping billboard in Shenzhen from Give Me My Money Chico 71 Claravall, 2010 Image 3.2 Rodrigo Petersen skating the famous wave ledge in Shenzhen in Give Me My Money Chico 72 Claravall, 2010; screenshot; used with permission Image 3.3 Shanghai Spot Map. Note colour coded spot types and spot information at each pin 77 Source: Thorbeck, 2020; screenshot; used with permission Image 4.1 Gabriel Summers skates a handrail in Astana in The Kazakhstan Triangle 97 Wallner, 2016; screenshot; used with permission Image 5.1 Ethan Loy waxing the Courage monument in Tashkent in Hotel Uzbekistan 122 Wallner, 2020; screenshot; used with permission Image 5.2 Miki Tähtinen skates the memorial to Bagrat Shinkuba moments before a local intervenes in Abkhazia 135 Lindevall, 2017; screenshot; used with permission Image 6.1 Denny Pham rolls through the arches of Azadi Tower in Tehran in preparation for a trick down the stairs in The Persian Version 147 Wallner, 2014; screenshot; used with permission Image 6.2 Off the plywood onto the handrail in Delhi. Note the drying clothes. Sean Malto in Gurus of the Ganges 154 Wallner, 2013; screenshot; used with permission Image 6.3 Skaters in Lal Bazar, a rare flat space amidst the vertical growth. Gangtok, Sikkim in 2018 157 Photo: Author Image 6.4 Showing ‘the wall’ no respect. Sylvain Tognelli in Pieces of Palestine 162 Harris, 2017; photograph by Sam Ashley; used with permission Image 7.1 Unorganized encounters in urban Asia: Thai skater Beek Supavich frontside noseslides a ping pong table in Bangkok 177 Photo by Janchai Montrelerdrasme; used with permission Acknowledgements ‘Skateboarding saved my life!’ is a common claim. So common that it has almost become cliché. Except that for many people all over the world its true, or at least it feels true. This project didn’t save my life, but it feels like it. Skateboarding has been there for me again and again since I was eight years old. For the last four years it has come into my professional life, getting me through disenchantment with my craft, many of the people doing it, and with the state of things in the world after 2016. So, thank you skateboarding. Thank you Anthony Claravall. Your pioneering videos and photos brought Asia to skateboarders and skateboarders to Asia. You are always somewhere in the region shooting footage, mentoring other filmers and photographers, and pushing skateboarding forward from Manila to Mumbai. Despite this you have given me so much of your time, knowledge and patience. Humility and generosity are rare qualities and you have both in abundance. And with a sense of humour too. Thank you Anthony. We will get that Sydney trip in one day; bushfires and pandemics be damned! Thank you Patrik Wallner. Your videos and photos have brought skate- boarding to places and communities that seemed impossible 20 years ago. They are such a joy to watch. The beauty of your visual archives of encounters between skateboarding and people all over Europe and Asia is inspiring; an alternative geopolitics with wax, urethane, and a soul. You have been so generous, kind, and supportive of this project. Few people are this kind to strangers. Protests and COVID halted our plans to hang out and talk about Socotra Island, but let’s do it soon. I’ll try to bring a robot. Thank you Vantte Lindevall. Abkhazia is a masterpiece and really forced me to think hard about this whole project. You have been so helpful with ideas, images and making connections with other researchers and writers. Thank you for sharing so much of your work and your ideas with me and tolerating my constant references to Aki Kaurismäki. Thank you Janchai Montrelerdrasme for your generosity in sharing your videos and images for this project. Your eye for the landscape in your skate video and photos animates Asian cities in ways that words just cannot do. Thank you too for the generous use of the photo for the book’s cover. Thank you to Roger Bagley for responding to a DM years ago about filming in China and sharing contacts and suggestions. Thank you Rog. And thank you for your show that gives our culture a social history. Thank you to the filmers and photographers who gave me permission to use their incredible visual material in the book: Sam Ashley, Anthony 12 SKATEBOARDING AND URBAN LANDSCAPES IN ASIA Claravall, Jacob Harris, Vantte Lindevall, Janchai Montrelerdrasme, Simon Perllaux, Erik Thorbeck, Patrik Wallner. Thank you for sharing your craft with a stranger. At Amsterdam University Press thank you to Saskia Gieling and Katarzyna J. Cwiertka for helping me find a home in the Consumption and Sustain- ability in Asia book series. This means a lot, especially as this is such different material to my other books, especially with AUP. Thanks for your faith in me. Changing research fields from borderlands and post-conflict cities to skateboarding after almost 20 years is a bit crazy, but also quite beautiful. I have many people to thank in academia for encouraging me to chase this beauty, especially when the lure to return to the known and flog the proverbial dead horse loomed large. Thank you Mona Chettri, Jason Cons and Kalervo ‘Slugger’ Gulson for taking this seriously, even when I didn’t. Thank you to Max D.
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