Dropping into sight: Commodification and co-optation of in-line skating

To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 27-51

  Rinehart, Robert E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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