Nick Pitas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6187723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nick Pitas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nick |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitas |
| SIGNATURE | PITAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No Responsibility
Nothing from something from nothing
In this response piece, I provide an assessment of a recent article focused on conspiracy theories and the 15 min city planning concept. While the original article focuses on addressing, deconstructing and debunking false narratives surrounding the 15-min city, I provide a critique of the tone, content and approach employed in doing so. My goal is not to discount or discard the valid points made in the original piece, but rather to emphasize how …
The Alteration and Degradation of Flow
Revisiting anti-leisure and other lead balloons
Leisure scholars spend an awful lot of time considering what leisure is without any consideration to what it is not. This critical commentary reintroduces a long-dormant concept, anti-leisure, to urge scholars in the field to apply it in their investigations to develop a more thorough understanding of leisure in society, specifically what is passed off as leisure when, in reality, those behaviours and activities are nothing of the sort
Park and Recreational Facility Availability, Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Socioeconomic Status, and Race
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation
Gentrification Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Park and Recreation Agency Actions Intended to Support People Experiencing Homelessness
After declining from historically high levels following the Great Recession, homelessness in the United States is again on the rise due to an increase in the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness, and homeless encampments in public spaces such as parks. As such, there is significant interest in understanding opinion regarding community park agency activities intended to support unhoused users. Unfortunately, these actions and investments may als…
Attitudes Towards Unhoused Park Users and Preferences for Public Space Management
Leisure Ex Machina
Humans may soon succeed in the creation of sentient artificial intelligence (SAI) that experiences human-like consciousness. Such SAI would have a claim to the same rights and moral considerations afforded to biological humans, including a right to leisure. Particular to this special issue, I explore the implications of such a development from the context of leisure studies; specifically, I apply utilitarian moral theory and the concept of a "uti…
The Moral Status of Leisure in a World with Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
In this essay, we argue that counter to the dominant narrative, many commonly practiced forms of leisure are morally impermissible. Specifically, we describe how for many people, in many circumstances, the practice of leisure cannot be reconciled with the pursuit of an ethical life. We also describe how certain leisure practices, which we identify as morally significant, are permissible. In short, we contend that in a world with ongoing moral cat…
Leisure in the Garden of Forking Paths
Freedom – both to choose our actions, and from obligation – features prominently in western conceptualizations of leisure. As such, freedom is the subject of considerable scholarly dialogue in the leisure studies context. While these discussions provide considerable value, they presuppose an important basic requirement: that free will is possible. This assumption is far from established fact however, and in this essay I examine the implications o…
Gentrification Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Park and Recreation Agency Actions Intended to Support People Experiencing Homelessness
After declining from historically high levels following the Great Recession, homelessness in the United States is again on the rise due to an increase in the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness, and homeless encampments in public spaces such as parks. As such, there is significant interest in understanding opinion regarding community park agency activities intended to support unhoused users. Unfortunately, these actions and investments may als…
Attitudes Towards Unhoused Park Users and Preferences for Public Space Management
The Moral Status of Leisure in a World with Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
In this essay, we argue that counter to the dominant narrative, many commonly practiced forms of leisure are morally impermissible. Specifically, we describe how for many people, in many circumstances, the practice of leisure cannot be reconciled with the pursuit of an ethical life. We also describe how certain leisure practices, which we identify as morally significant, are permissible. In short, we contend that in a world with ongoing moral cat…
The Moral Status of Leisure in a World with Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
In this essay, we argue that counter to the dominant narrative, many commonly practiced forms of leisure are morally impermissible. Specifically, we describe how for many people, in many circumstances, the practice of leisure cannot be reconciled with the pursuit of an ethical life. We also describe how certain leisure practices, which we identify as morally significant, are permissible. In short, we contend that in a world with ongoing moral cat…
Leisure in the Garden of Forking Paths
Freedom – both to choose our actions, and from obligation – features prominently in western conceptualizations of leisure. As such, freedom is the subject of considerable scholarly dialogue in the leisure studies context. While these discussions provide considerable value, they presuppose an important basic requirement: that free will is possible. This assumption is far from established fact however, and in this essay I examine the implications o…
Gentrification Beliefs and Attitudes Towards Park and Recreation Agency Actions Intended to Support People Experiencing Homelessness
After declining from historically high levels following the Great Recession, homelessness in the United States is again on the rise due to an increase in the prevalence of unsheltered homelessness, and homeless encampments in public spaces such as parks. As such, there is significant interest in understanding opinion regarding community park agency activities intended to support unhoused users. Unfortunately, these actions and investments may als…
Attitudes Towards Unhoused Park Users and Preferences for Public Space Management
Leisure Ex Machina
Humans may soon succeed in the creation of sentient artificial intelligence (SAI) that experiences human-like consciousness. Such SAI would have a claim to the same rights and moral considerations afforded to biological humans, including a right to leisure. Particular to this special issue, I explore the implications of such a development from the context of leisure studies; specifically, I apply utilitarian moral theory and the concept of a "uti…
Revisiting anti-leisure and other lead balloons
Leisure scholars spend an awful lot of time considering what leisure is without any consideration to what it is not. This critical commentary reintroduces a long-dormant concept, anti-leisure, to urge scholars in the field to apply it in their investigations to develop a more thorough understanding of leisure in society, specifically what is passed off as leisure when, in reality, those behaviours and activities are nothing of the sort
Park and Recreational Facility Availability, Leisure-Time Physical Activity, Socioeconomic Status, and Race
Voting “Yes” for Community-Level Conservation
No Responsibility
Nothing from something from nothing
In this response piece, I provide an assessment of a recent article focused on conspiracy theories and the 15 min city planning concept. While the original article focuses on addressing, deconstructing and debunking false narratives surrounding the 15-min city, I provide a critique of the tone, content and approach employed in doing so. My goal is not to discount or discard the valid points made in the original piece, but rather to emphasize how …
The Alteration and Degradation of Flow
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)