Filthy Media Affecting Bad Taste in Beach Culture

Surfing has been a site of cultural contestation since the Euro-American colonization of the Pacific. Indeed, critical scholarship in sports history, cultural studies, and consumer research illustrates diverse constructions of this ancient activity. In the 19th century, colonial institutions had framed Hawaiian surfing as a hazardous pastime that disrupted their economic and religious missions (Ishiwata 2002; Van Parijs 1991). During the...