Grey space
Grey space is a material and symbolic perspective in Leisure Studies that exemplifies both the polluted and unwanted urban space as will as the related ambiguity and uncertainty attached to these spaces.[1] Grey space is frequently contextualized as 'hard space,' or 'urban' and placed in contrast to other contemporary leisure activities that boast advantages to health and well being.[2] Such nature-based leisure is explored in a chromatic perspective with reference to "blue space" and "green space." The conservation and protection of blue and green spaces fuses leisure with environmental and sustainability discourses, contrasting with polluted spaces.[3]
As important and powerful as these pastimes are, which include surfing, kayaking, sailing, swimming in the blue spaces and biking, hiking, trail running, and rock climbing in the green spaces, they overlook the contradictions of everyday leisure in *urban* space. This critique is fortified by considering attempts to recreate green spaces, like parks, prairies, and nature preserves within urban areas.[4] Are city parks really green spaces? Do scenic drives really count as green, given the obvious pollution and hard driving surfaces necessary to make them possible and pleasurable. Grey space is thus an attempt to interrogate these ambiguous spaces where pollution and urbanity threaten natural biomes. From an urban leisure perspective, greyness introduces a much needed distinction working primarily from concrete, granite, tarmac and steel. These ‘grey’ spaces are both materially grey as urban sites, and also symbolically grey. They are sites of nuance, ambiguity, and contradiction.
Grey space leisure focus relates to pollution,[5] active aging,[6] and related uncertainties of legitimate recreational and legal praxis, such as using remediated toxic brownfields for spaces of recreation and thus health and wellbeing. This uncertainly is particularly relevant in the particular epoch that many anthropologists have attributed to our time, known as the Anthropocene.
References
- ↑ O’Connor, Paul; Evers, Clifton; Glenney, Brian; Willing, Indigo (2022-12-09). "Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure". Leisure Studies. 42 (6): 897–907. doi:10.1080/02614367.2022.2153906. ISSN 0261-4367. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Potter, John D.; Brooks, Collin; Donovan, Geoffrey; Cunningham, Chris; Douwes, Jeroen (September 2023). "A perspective on green, blue, and grey spaces, biodiversity, microbiota, and human health". Science of the Total Environment. 892: 164772. Bibcode:2023ScTEn.892p4772P. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164772. PMID 37308017 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Evers, Clifton; Phoenix, Cassandra (January 2022). "Relationships between Recreation and Pollution When Striving for Wellbeing in Blue Spaces". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (7): 4170. doi:10.3390/ijerph19074170. ISSN 1660-4601. PMC 8998665 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 35409855 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Little, Charles E. (1995). Greenways for America. Creating the North American Landscape Series. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5140-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Evers, Clifton Westly (2019-09-03). "Polluted Leisure". Leisure Sciences. 41 (5): 423–440. doi:10.1080/01490400.2019.1627963. ISSN 0149-0400. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Beal, Tyler; Dupont, Becky, eds. (2021-09-30). Lifestyle Sports and Identities: Subcultural Careers Through the Life Course. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429340505. ISBN 978-0-429-34050-5. Unknown parameter
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