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

Published in Leisure Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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....

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...

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...

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...