'Chicks dig scars': Commercialisation and the transformations of skateboarders' identities

Understanding Lifestyle Sport: Consumption, Identity and Difference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 31-54

  Beal, Becky ^a   Wilson, Charlene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

^b YMCA   (United States)

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EID: 29144444897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203646069     Document Type: Chapter

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