Surfing Nation(s) Surfing Country(s)

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Despite its historical connections to countercultural and subcultural expression, surfing in Australia has emerged as a cultural formation which contributes to and sustains dominant conceptions of national identity. This claim is demonstrated through the investigation of a diverse range of texts. As a counterpoint to the congruence of mainstream surfing culture and white Australian nationhood, this work draws from the culturally specific views of nation and country that inform contemporary Indigenous surfing culture. Through the voices of Aboriginal people, nation(s), surfing, and the ocean are contextualised according to a culturally relevant frame of reference that contests dominant projections of nation at the level of cultural production and cultural practice.