New ES Topic in Fall 2024: Surfing and Empire in the Pacific

ES 470: Surfing and Empire in the Pacific Fall 2024 Course Information

ES 470: Surfing and Empire in the Pacific offered in Fall 2024

The Ethnic Studies Department is offering a new topic in Fall 2024!

ES 470: Surfing and Empire in the Pacific examines the entangled relationships between modern surfing, Indigenous practices of wave riding, and empire building in the Pacific. Grounded in cultural works, this course interrogates how surfing reenacts neocolonial forms of power and Indigenous dispossession in the Pacific.

This course will be led by Dr. Lydia Heberling, lheberli@calpoly.edu, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at Cal Poly. Please contact Dr. Heberling if you have any questions about the course.