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Paul O’Connor, Indigo Willing, Benjamin Duester, Sander Hölsgens - Leisure of Grey Spaces, Urban Play and the Chromatic Turn, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Leisure of Grey Spaces, Urban Play and the Chromatic Turn

Av Paul O’Connor, Indigo Willing, Benjamin Duester, Sander Hölsgens

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This book explores the concept of leisure through the lens of colour, offering a fresh and innovative perspective on how chromatic elements shape our understanding of health, wellbeing, and environmental ethics. By focusing on the material and symbolic significance of hues, particularly blue, green, and grey, the book delves into the ways these colours influence leisure spaces and activities. From children’s play to surfing in artificial wave pools and skateboarding, the chapters examine diverse leisure practices across locations such as the UK, Russia, Turkey, East Asia, and North America. The book also challenges the traditional focus on blue and green spaces by highlighting the potential of grey spaces—urban environments like city streets, rooftops, and industrial landscapes—as sites of healthy and meaningful leisure.Through 15 chapters based on original empirical research, this book introduces the nascent field of chromatic leisure, offering new conceptual frameworks that add depth and nuance to leisure scholarship. It critically examines how grey spaces, often overlooked in health and well-being discourse, provide alternative ways to frame leisure, embracing ambiguity, hybridity, and complexity. This book is essential reading for students, scholars and policymakers in leisure studies, social geography, urbanism, and health and well-being research.The chapters in this book were originally published in Leisure Studies and are now accompanied by three new chapters and an updated introduction.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-07-13
  • Mått: 174 x 246 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 660 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 226
  • Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781041198819
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Paul O’Connor is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Exeter’s Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology (SPSPA). His research explores the sociology of skateboarding, Hong Kong studies, religion, pilgrimage, and cultural hybridity. He is the author of Islam in Hong Kong: Muslims and Everyday Life in China’s World City (2012) and Skateboarding and Religion (2019).Indigo Willing is the co-author of Skateboarding, Power and Change (2023), written with Anthony Pappalardo and featuring art by Adam Abada. She serves as the co-chair of the International Advisory Board for Skateistan and is the co-founder of several award-winning skate initiatives. Indigo holds Fellowships with the Winston Churchill Trust, the University of Sydney, and the Queensland State Library, Australia.Benjamin Duester is a Research Fellow in Musicology at Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany. He is a co-founder of the SSHRED (Skating, Sustainability, Health Research and Environmental Design) research network, which focuses on the creative and circular use of waste in art and urban practices. Benjamin is the author of Tomorrow on Cassette: Tape Jams in the New Media Age (2025).Sander Hölsgens is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is the co-director of Pushing Boarders, an international platform and conference that examines the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. His writing on skateboarding has been featured in Skateism, Vice, and Jenkem. Sander is the author of Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography and Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces (2024; co-authored with Brian Glenney).

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