The Art of Living Sideways
Skateboarding, Peace and Elicitive Conflict Transformation
Authors: Friedel, Sophie
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Sophie Friedel explores the action of skateboarding in her book as a way to escape cycles of despair, not only in war torn environments and regions affected by poverty. The author critically reflects on her involvements of teaching skateboarding in Afghanistan within the context of youth empowerment and peace work. By way of personal experiences, Friedel illustrates how skateboarding can be understood as an elicitive approach to peace work and conflict transformation that unfolds the extraordinary human potential inherent to all of us.
- About the authors
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Sophie Friedel is a peace and conflict researcher from the MA Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. She has travelled through Europe, Afghanistan and Costa Rica to teach skateboarding and is currently training to become a Psychotherapist.
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Introduction
Pages 13-23
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(Re)search Methodology
Pages 25-44
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Conceptual Considerations
Pages 45-53
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Kabul, Peace & Skateboarding
Pages 55-77
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Medicine for the Soul
Pages 79-102
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Art of Living Sideways
- Book Subtitle
- Skateboarding, Peace and Elicitive Conflict Transformation
- Authors
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- Sophie Friedel
- Series Title
- Masters of Peace
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-08955-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-08955-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-08954-2
- Series ISSN
- 2364-463X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 106
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics