Abstract
“Tribe” cultures of the young men that have gushed into the urban space of our country have been the object of controlling or exclusion. To use urban space the young men have been restricted their practice by eyes of local residents or controlling of policemen and security guards.
In this paper I devoted skateboarders on the streets. I did skateboard myself and joined the young skateboarders at Tsuchiura station West Park where opened on May 27, 2001. Furthermore, I gathered voices of various actors.
On the opening of this station park, skateboarders teamed up with a manager of a local skateboard shop and collected signatures to move the city council. Although their activity was to gain that space, they were enclosed at the same time.
And in this activity they keep their ordinary practice; they recreated the space into the one enjoyable for them and also were attracted by “street” again to go back to there. They quest between edges of urban space as they dodging the control and exclusion.
So their activity cannot be described as the “resistance” to the enclosure by local governments or police. Young skateboarders do not make just resistance, but accept those pressures in some ways.
Through this paper, I described out those skateboarders' way of life in everyday practice that never been realized by using previous models of “counter” or “resistance”. They have their “artful and pliable practice” that could invalidate the power of “dominance”, and I found there is much possibility to alternative “solidarity”.
