2023/11/15 by Brian Glenney · 1 citation
Psychology · #Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking #Anthropocene #Computer science #Embodied cognition #Environmental ethics #Environmental justice #Leisure activity #Outdoor and Experiential Education #Psychology #Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management #Social psychology #Sociology #Space (punctuation)
paper · doi:10.1080/01490400.2023.2281568
crossref issued 2023/11/15 · crossref published 2023/11/15 · crossref published-online 2023/11/15 · openalex publication_date 2023/11/15 · crossref created 2023/11/15 · crossref deposited 2024/10/15 · crossref published-print 2024/11/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/08/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Pollution makes some leisure activities not only possible but pleasurable, an analysis known as “polluted leisure.” In this paper, I extend this analysis with case examples of leisure participants adept use of polluted spaces. This adept use suggests that some leisure participants are “enskiled” at polluted leisure, possessing an embodied ecological familiarity with polluted spaces similar to a sailor who has a real knack for getting their sea legs. I present a case example of skateboarders building formal and informal skateparks on remediated Superfund sites and brownfields to further encourage this notion of polluted leisure enskilment. I then develop this notion of polluted leisure enskilment using Guattari’s “ecosophy,” a way of being most suitable for our Anthropocene age, claiming that skateboarding’s esthetic enmeshed in polluted space offers a lived ecosophy. I conclude with potential extensions of this research in leisure studies, spatial justice, and skate studies.