Congrats to Alex on the new book. I'm excited to have a chapter in this on 'digital distance' and conspicuous digital disengagement. Check out the 50% off code too BUP02 in the post below.

A.R.E. Taylor@aretaylor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Happy to announce that The Analogue Idyll: Disconnection, Detox, and Departure is released today with @brisunipress.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social! You can read the open access intro here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/b...

We made a special issue for @leisurestudies.bsky.social on pollution+play. The majority of papers is open-access, too ♥️ www.tandfonline.com/toc/rlst20/4... Co-editors: @peejayohhsee.bsky.social, @indigowilling.bsky.social, @benjaminduester.bsky.social, and myself.

Leisure Studies

The Leisure of Grey Spaces, Urban Play and the Chromatic Turn. Volume 44, Issue 5 of Leisure Studies

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Most Cited Research Article 🛹 Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Skateboarding #Leisure #GreySpaces

New Research Article 📚 The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Leisure #GreySpaces #Environment

The Editorial to our Special Issue on Grey Spaces and Chromatic Leisure for @leisurestudies.bsky.social is now published. @indigowilling.bsky.social @benjaminduester.bsky.social @sanderholsgens.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn

Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Next up in our Seminar Series on ‘Playable Cities’ at @uvahumanities.bsky.social: On April 25, @peejayohhsee.bsky.social will give a guest lecture on “Play through the Grey Prism: Addressing Chromatic Leisure in Cities“ 🛹 www.cities.humanities.uva.nl/news/asca-ci... @carobirdsall.bsky.social

Lots of really interesting looking papers coming out in the “grey spaces” special issue of @leisurestudies.bsky.social - making time post-strike to read them all.

abi karas@abikaras.bsky.social · last yr.

wrote about grey spaces, russia and the capitalocene. hope this enriches the chromatic leisure paradigm in some way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic new paper on Roofers and the grey spaces of the capitolocene framed by the skyline of St Petersburg. Bravo!

abi karas@abikaras.bsky.social · last yr.

wrote about grey spaces, russia and the capitalocene. hope this enriches the chromatic leisure paradigm in some way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is just a selection of the photos I’ve taken on Tyneside. It’s clear to see the kinds of spaces they are erected in - green & grey spaces on post-war estates, spaces that afford easy doorstep playing & hanging out, in communities experiencing disinvestment with few other accessible facilities.

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last yr.

“Children … play right outside where they live … It’s a completely different way of playing than going to a park with an adult.” “No ball games signs” deter doorstep play, of all kinds, indicating that play is not welcome in these spaces. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

1) Grey Play - taking down the no ball games signs on a Lambeth Housing Estate. Good to see the urban debate on play gathering momentum... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yes, ball games: drive to take down signs warning against play begins in London

Charity says thousands of signs on capital’s estates deter children from being active, and is covering some of them up

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I’m calling it, spring is here! @peejayohhsee.bsky.social in Rotterdam

A new article by @skateorphi.bsky.social 'Skateboarding, Pollution, Decolonisation' in Leisure Studies, another superb and novel contribution to our Special Issue on Chromatic Leisure and Grey Spaces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Skateparks, pollution, and decolonisation

Street skateboarding, known for its appropriation of urban architecture and space, is thought to be a decolonialising force in city streets through its manifesting of Indigenous concepts such as th...

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New Special Issue of Sport & Society on Surf and Skate scholarship. Papers on surfing mixed in with work on skate scenes in Tijuana and Northern Ireland, a paper on skaters of colour, and our own ( @skateorphi.bsky.social @texturologies.bsky.social ) on sound. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcss20/2...

Sport in Society

Surfing and Skateboarding; Michael James Roberts,Kristin Lawler. Volume 28, Issue 2 of Sport in Society

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Another valuable research paper on the therapeutic side of skateboarding. Really please to see this in print after spending some time in Inverness and seeing some of this project unfold with Mari and Marc. @leisure-studies.bsky.social - Open Access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A different gravitation: acceptance of authentic selves, becoming through doing, and support through connection within a Highland skatepark

Previous research has suggested that skateparks can provide spaces which enhance social, psychological and physical wellbeing, whilst building support and a sense of community. The purpose of this ...

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What a great idea and argument--looking forward to reading this

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · last yr.

This is something I’ve been thinking about for ages, and am pleased Leisure Studies’ special issue on “grey spaces” gave me a change to explore it. As access to green space is widely promoted, I argue *for* play in grey space. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic paper by @alisonstenning.bsky.social on children's play in UK streets. Progressing the discussion of chromatic leisure and advocating for play in grey spaces. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Children’s play in grey spaces: ludic geographies and the chromatic turn

Children have long played in ‘grey spaces’, on doorsteps, roads, car parks, back lanes, but this ludic geography is not uncontested. Debates around the proper place for children’s outdoor play, in ...

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Turning Green Space into Grey space. This seems like an awful idea to transform 53 hectres of park into all weather pitches. Pleased that women's football is getting support, but need it come at the cost of the little urban green space available. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Dark day for parks’: Plans to build Spurs academy on London green space approved

Residents had unsuccessfully challenged Enfield council in court over club’s plan to build pitches on rewilded area rich in bats and newts

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A short piece on our recent research paper exploring the sound of skateboarding. theconversation.com/the-sound-of...

The sound of skateboarding offers skaters a therapeutic way to connect with the city

It is as if the skateboard is an extended sensory appendage, to feel and hear the world at large.

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New OPEN ACCESS paper by Stephen Crossley, Gijs van Campenhout and me, about the past, present & future of informal youth football in the UK. Provides a history of informal football and highlights the dangers of formalisation, containment & instrumentalisation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It’s a far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Isn’t it?’ the changing space of informal youth football in the UK

It is often remarked that all that is required for children to play football are ‘jumpers for goalposts’. Space is also required, however, and so is permission to play, and to see the game through....

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New Publication 'The Skater's Ear' addressing the sensory world of sound for skateboarders - Open Access and free to download www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The skater’s ear: a sensuous complexity of skateboarding sound

The sound of skateboarding is an issue fraught in controversy: the sound is a common basis for public noise complaints as well as participant praises. We consider a possible basis for this controve...

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New publication - taking a Jungian approach to #skateboarding www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Application of Carl Jung’s Thinking to Action Sports: A Skateboarding Case Study

This paper contributes to the development of psychoanalytical theory in sport philosophy. It addresses the work of Carl Jung and notes the paucity of discussion on his thinking in the realm of spor...

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In this year's #ASCA Cities Seminar (co-organized w/ @carobirdsall.bsky.social), we will approach the city through the lens of play with Ekim Tan, @peejayohhsee.bsky.social, Sam Hind, Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske ✨ Open to all! www.cities.humanities.uva.nl/news/2024-20...

New Publication post - Conceptualising Grey Spaces in Skateboarding: Generating Theory and Method for use Beyond the Board - in International Review of the Sociology of Sport … journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Conceptualising grey spaces in skateboarding: Generating theory and method for use beyond the board - Paul O’Connor, 2024

This conceptual paper elaborates on the paradigm of ‘grey spaces’ in skateboarding. It presents the fundamentals of the grey spaces concept as a bond between th...

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