Brian E Kumm
Biographic Data
| ID | 174779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian E Kumm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian E |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumm |
| SIGNATURE | KUMM B E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–La Crosse |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4676-4201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
This machine kills fascists”: Music, joy, resistance
Within this article we move amongst the varied relationships between music, feeling, and politics. We begin by exploring differences and interrelations between affect and emotion to forward a conception of joy as the intensification of life capacities. We then locate joy in music and draw from various musical artists, poets, and activists to advance a modest programme of joy as a form of micropolitics. Ultimately, the focus of this article is an …
Listening, Learning, and Leaning into Pandemic Pedagogy
This article offers a brief account of pedagogical pivots necessitated by the challenges of teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss two iterations of a class assignment that emphasized listening in natural spaces, and highlight the student-reported benefits of relaxation, calm, and clarity. Recognizing the need for additional resources to aid with mental and emotional health, we offer this account as a lesson of how we may cultivate sp…
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming
This conceptual paper aims to serve two purposes: 1) introduce theories of surveillance to aid leisure scholars in exploring surveillance in its many forms; and, 2) add to the discussion on surveillance by layering “the leisure body” onto existing theory. We begin by introducing three groupings of “surveillance” theory: panoptic surveillance (think Bentham and Foucault), post-panoptical surveillance (think Deleuze), and contemporary surveillance …
But Words Can and Do Hurt: A Rejoinder to “Sticks and Stones…”
This paper offers a rejoinder to Dustin, Schmalz, and Allen’s recent publication, Sticks and Stones...: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning. We redress issues of power and ethics both present in and absent from their manuscript, and assert that it represents an inappropriate use of professorial power. We offer apologies to the students affected, and leverage bell hooks’ “teaching to transgress” to open space for more intentional, mindful, an…
Emotional Pedagogies: Strategies for Engaging Social Justice in the Classroom
In teaching for social justice, educators should not only consider what to teach, but also how to teach particular topics. Given that social justice work cannot be emotionally neutral, we articulate the power and beneficence of emotional pedagogies to leverage immersed, bodily experiences that engage student senses beyond cognition and rationality. We present practical pedagogical strategies that we have employed to engage our students toward soc…
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All
The Future is Unwritten: Listening to the Rhythms of Covid-19
This article asks us to listen critically to the rhythms of our time. COVID-19 has altered the pace and tempo of contemporary life; however, rhythm asks that we engage our moment in ways that account for the seismic shifts in how we live, how we teach and how we learn. We call leisure scholars to listen to the rhythms of our current pandemic, to consider how rhythm may suspend pace, tempo and meter to open space for a reparative leisure and criti…
On Methods: “The Situation’s in Control”
The situation is always, already in control. Drawing inspiration from jam bands and artists such as Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead, this article leverages “jamming” as a way to playfully and improvisationally engage leisure research. Further, we emphasize how improvizational practices can be both affirmative and generative, enhancing research aims. In the situational dynamics between researcher, participants, and phenomenon, we illustrate h…
For Those to Come: An Introduction to Why Posthumanism Matters
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
In the garden of domestic dystopia: Racial delirium and playful interference
Attempting an affective and post-qualitative examination of the glocal conditions of state-stimulated capitalism that perpetuates injustice in domestic leisure spaces, we detail a specific space—the first author’s next-door neighbour’s lawn. As a contentious locale, the global social, economic and political forces contracted towards a racial delirium of paranoiac and schizophrenic affects. Ultimately, we reconceive how we live within everyday, do…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry: Conversations to Come
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
Joyful Digressions: Going Gonzo
Within this article, we attempt to counter the seriousness that sometimes tends to weigh down academic pursuits. Although we acknowledge the necessary anchors that tether us to various obligations in our work, we enact a form of play that emerged over the course of our dissertations and extended into our budding careers. We call this form "going Gonzo." By recounting the emergence of trickster figure within our work-who we simply call "Phillip"-w…
Subversive Imagination: Smoothing Space for Leisure, Identity, and Politics
Existential disturbances: The beginnings of leisure
The purpose of this article is to contend with, not answer, a question related to happiness. Specifically, we are interested in whether leisure and happiness are possible when feelings stand in stark contrast to those conventionally associated with these terms. Is leisure or happiness possible when one is existentially shaken or disturbed? We contend that it is; that existential disturbances may be necessary as a beginning for leisure, which can …
Finding healing through songwriting: A song for Nicolette
The purpose of this article is to outline one person’s lived-experience of songwriting. Using data from an individual participant as an archetype of a larger Post-Intentional Phenomenological project, this songwriter’s experience is understood as both cathartic and transcendent. Illuminated by the phenomenological description of ‘gravitating-levitating’, songwriting served as a form of healing for both the participating songwriter and listeners o…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry: Conversations to Come
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
For Those to Come: An Introduction to Why Posthumanism Matters
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
In the garden of domestic dystopia: Racial delirium and playful interference
Attempting an affective and post-qualitative examination of the glocal conditions of state-stimulated capitalism that perpetuates injustice in domestic leisure spaces, we detail a specific space—the first author’s next-door neighbour’s lawn. As a contentious locale, the global social, economic and political forces contracted towards a racial delirium of paranoiac and schizophrenic affects. Ultimately, we reconceive how we live within everyday, do…
This machine kills fascists”: Music, joy, resistance
Within this article we move amongst the varied relationships between music, feeling, and politics. We begin by exploring differences and interrelations between affect and emotion to forward a conception of joy as the intensification of life capacities. We then locate joy in music and draw from various musical artists, poets, and activists to advance a modest programme of joy as a form of micropolitics. Ultimately, the focus of this article is an …
Existential disturbances: The beginnings of leisure
The purpose of this article is to contend with, not answer, a question related to happiness. Specifically, we are interested in whether leisure and happiness are possible when feelings stand in stark contrast to those conventionally associated with these terms. Is leisure or happiness possible when one is existentially shaken or disturbed? We contend that it is; that existential disturbances may be necessary as a beginning for leisure, which can …
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming
This conceptual paper aims to serve two purposes: 1) introduce theories of surveillance to aid leisure scholars in exploring surveillance in its many forms; and, 2) add to the discussion on surveillance by layering “the leisure body” onto existing theory. We begin by introducing three groupings of “surveillance” theory: panoptic surveillance (think Bentham and Foucault), post-panoptical surveillance (think Deleuze), and contemporary surveillance …
Joyful Digressions: Going Gonzo
Within this article, we attempt to counter the seriousness that sometimes tends to weigh down academic pursuits. Although we acknowledge the necessary anchors that tether us to various obligations in our work, we enact a form of play that emerged over the course of our dissertations and extended into our budding careers. We call this form "going Gonzo." By recounting the emergence of trickster figure within our work-who we simply call "Phillip"-w…
Finding healing through songwriting: A song for Nicolette
The purpose of this article is to outline one person’s lived-experience of songwriting. Using data from an individual participant as an archetype of a larger Post-Intentional Phenomenological project, this songwriter’s experience is understood as both cathartic and transcendent. Illuminated by the phenomenological description of ‘gravitating-levitating’, songwriting served as a form of healing for both the participating songwriter and listeners o…
Existential disturbances: The beginnings of leisure
The purpose of this article is to contend with, not answer, a question related to happiness. Specifically, we are interested in whether leisure and happiness are possible when feelings stand in stark contrast to those conventionally associated with these terms. Is leisure or happiness possible when one is existentially shaken or disturbed? We contend that it is; that existential disturbances may be necessary as a beginning for leisure, which can …
Subversive Imagination: Smoothing Space for Leisure, Identity, and Politics
In the garden of domestic dystopia: Racial delirium and playful interference
Attempting an affective and post-qualitative examination of the glocal conditions of state-stimulated capitalism that perpetuates injustice in domestic leisure spaces, we detail a specific space—the first author’s next-door neighbour’s lawn. As a contentious locale, the global social, economic and political forces contracted towards a racial delirium of paranoiac and schizophrenic affects. Ultimately, we reconceive how we live within everyday, do…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry: Conversations to Come
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
Joyful Digressions: Going Gonzo
Within this article, we attempt to counter the seriousness that sometimes tends to weigh down academic pursuits. Although we acknowledge the necessary anchors that tether us to various obligations in our work, we enact a form of play that emerged over the course of our dissertations and extended into our budding careers. We call this form "going Gonzo." By recounting the emergence of trickster figure within our work-who we simply call "Phillip"-w…
For Those to Come: An Introduction to Why Posthumanism Matters
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
The Future is Unwritten: Listening to the Rhythms of Covid-19
This article asks us to listen critically to the rhythms of our time. COVID-19 has altered the pace and tempo of contemporary life; however, rhythm asks that we engage our moment in ways that account for the seismic shifts in how we live, how we teach and how we learn. We call leisure scholars to listen to the rhythms of our current pandemic, to consider how rhythm may suspend pace, tempo and meter to open space for a reparative leisure and criti…
On Methods: “The Situation’s in Control”
The situation is always, already in control. Drawing inspiration from jam bands and artists such as Bill Kreutzmann of the Grateful Dead, this article leverages “jamming” as a way to playfully and improvisationally engage leisure research. Further, we emphasize how improvizational practices can be both affirmative and generative, enhancing research aims. In the situational dynamics between researcher, participants, and phenomenon, we illustrate h…
But Words Can and Do Hurt: A Rejoinder to “Sticks and Stones…”
This paper offers a rejoinder to Dustin, Schmalz, and Allen’s recent publication, Sticks and Stones...: Embracing Discomfort to Enhance Learning. We redress issues of power and ethics both present in and absent from their manuscript, and assert that it represents an inappropriate use of professorial power. We offer apologies to the students affected, and leverage bell hooks’ “teaching to transgress” to open space for more intentional, mindful, an…
Emotional Pedagogies: Strategies for Engaging Social Justice in the Classroom
In teaching for social justice, educators should not only consider what to teach, but also how to teach particular topics. Given that social justice work cannot be emotionally neutral, we articulate the power and beneficence of emotional pedagogies to leverage immersed, bodily experiences that engage student senses beyond cognition and rationality. We present practical pedagogical strategies that we have employed to engage our students toward soc…
Parting Thoughts XI: Be Idle, That Is All
Listening, Learning, and Leaning into Pandemic Pedagogy
This article offers a brief account of pedagogical pivots necessitated by the challenges of teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss two iterations of a class assignment that emphasized listening in natural spaces, and highlight the student-reported benefits of relaxation, calm, and clarity. Recognizing the need for additional resources to aid with mental and emotional health, we offer this account as a lesson of how we may cultivate sp…
Surveillance, Capitalism, Leisure, and Data: Being Watched, Giving, Becoming
This conceptual paper aims to serve two purposes: 1) introduce theories of surveillance to aid leisure scholars in exploring surveillance in its many forms; and, 2) add to the discussion on surveillance by layering “the leisure body” onto existing theory. We begin by introducing three groupings of “surveillance” theory: panoptic surveillance (think Bentham and Foucault), post-panoptical surveillance (think Deleuze), and contemporary surveillance …
This machine kills fascists”: Music, joy, resistance
Within this article we move amongst the varied relationships between music, feeling, and politics. We begin by exploring differences and interrelations between affect and emotion to forward a conception of joy as the intensification of life capacities. We then locate joy in music and draw from various musical artists, poets, and activists to advance a modest programme of joy as a form of micropolitics. Ultimately, the focus of this article is an …
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (6 works)