B Glenney
Biographic Data
| ID | 70314 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Glenney |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Glenney |
| SIGNATURE | GLENNEY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwich University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8640-3278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Skateparks, pollution, and decolonisation
The skater’s ear: A Sensuous Complexity of Skateboarding Sound
Of skills and tools: Skateboarding as city craft
This paper seeks to understand the sports- and crafts-like skills skaters acquire and maintain to navigate the built environment. Building upon the anthropology of the senses and the praxis of enskilment, we argue that skaters engage in a plurality of complementary learning strategies, from institutionalized sport-based regimes to in situ city play. Our contribution to recent ethnographic scholarship on skateboarding is that we position its enski…
A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem
Puzzle Pluralism
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy
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 le…
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space
This paper seeks to analyze “skate crime:” what skateboarders do, why they do it, and why it is criminalized even in public spaces. I begin with a case example of the Dolores Street Hill Bomb in San Francisco, a seemingly over-criminalized annual event that treats skaters as enemies of the city, a logic of enmity. This same logic was used to criminalize 17th–18th century “Golden Age” maritime piracy, a heuristic that helps assess the role that st…
Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces
This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft". Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action - from rebellious interventionism to a critical engag…
Skateboarding and the surplus value of city play
Cities, defined materially by concreted surfaces and geometrically shaped structures, have a novel ecology, a "grey space". Grey spaces are criticized for their lack of salubrity in contrast to blue and green spaces enriched by natural biodiversity. How might cities become salubrious? We consider urban play as a source of surplus value both in the context of capitalist frames of labour vs. leisure and societal frames of obedience vs. deviance. We…
David Howes, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law
Journal Article David Howes, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law Get access David HowesSensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 290. $29.95. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-2710-9501-1. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096261 Brian Glenney Brian Glenney Norwich University, USA [email protected] Search fo…
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of ‘grey spaces’. We provide evidence of how skateboarding demonstrates a greyness – political and environmental ambiguities, contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes – to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure studies which attends to blue and green spaces; however, we shift focus from the therapeutic disc…
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: From Polarity to Plurality
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
The Senses and the History of Philosophy
Skateboarding and the Ecology of Urban Space
Skateboarding poses a unique case study for considering the place of sport in human activity. The bulk of skateboarding scholarship argues that skateboarding is largely a subversion of rule governance, a view difficult to square with common and popular rule-governed skateboarding competitions, now including the Olympics. We attempt to resolve this tension by arguing for a kind of pluralism: skateboarding's engagement in rule-governed competition …
Mike Hill and Warren Montag, The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics
Adam Smith and the Problem of the External World
How does the mind attribute external causes to internal sensory experiences? Adam Smith addresses this question in his little known essay ‘Of the External Senses.’ I closely examine Smith's various formulations of this problem and then argue for an interpretation of his solution: that inborn perceptual mechanisms automatically generate external attributions of internal experiences. I conclude by speculating that these mechanisms are best understo…
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of ‘grey spaces’. We provide evidence of how skateboarding demonstrates a greyness – political and environmental ambiguities, contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes – to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure studies which attends to blue and green spaces; however, we shift focus from the therapeutic disc…
Skateboarding and the Ecology of Urban Space
Skateboarding poses a unique case study for considering the place of sport in human activity. The bulk of skateboarding scholarship argues that skateboarding is largely a subversion of rule governance, a view difficult to square with common and popular rule-governed skateboarding competitions, now including the Olympics. We attempt to resolve this tension by arguing for a kind of pluralism: skateboarding's engagement in rule-governed competition …
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy
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 le…
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: From Polarity to Plurality
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Skateboarding and the surplus value of city play
Cities, defined materially by concreted surfaces and geometrically shaped structures, have a novel ecology, a "grey space". Grey spaces are criticized for their lack of salubrity in contrast to blue and green spaces enriched by natural biodiversity. How might cities become salubrious? We consider urban play as a source of surplus value both in the context of capitalist frames of labour vs. leisure and societal frames of obedience vs. deviance. We…
Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces
This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft". Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action - from rebellious interventionism to a critical engag…
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space
This paper seeks to analyze “skate crime:” what skateboarders do, why they do it, and why it is criminalized even in public spaces. I begin with a case example of the Dolores Street Hill Bomb in San Francisco, a seemingly over-criminalized annual event that treats skaters as enemies of the city, a logic of enmity. This same logic was used to criminalize 17th–18th century “Golden Age” maritime piracy, a heuristic that helps assess the role that st…
Adam Smith and the Problem of the External World
How does the mind attribute external causes to internal sensory experiences? Adam Smith addresses this question in his little known essay ‘Of the External Senses.’ I closely examine Smith's various formulations of this problem and then argue for an interpretation of his solution: that inborn perceptual mechanisms automatically generate external attributions of internal experiences. I conclude by speculating that these mechanisms are best understo…
Skateparks, pollution, and decolonisation
Adam Smith and the Problem of the External World
How does the mind attribute external causes to internal sensory experiences? Adam Smith addresses this question in his little known essay ‘Of the External Senses.’ I closely examine Smith's various formulations of this problem and then argue for an interpretation of his solution: that inborn perceptual mechanisms automatically generate external attributions of internal experiences. I conclude by speculating that these mechanisms are best understo…
Mike Hill and Warren Montag, The Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics
Skateboarding and the Ecology of Urban Space
Skateboarding poses a unique case study for considering the place of sport in human activity. The bulk of skateboarding scholarship argues that skateboarding is largely a subversion of rule governance, a view difficult to square with common and popular rule-governed skateboarding competitions, now including the Olympics. We attempt to resolve this tension by arguing for a kind of pluralism: skateboarding's engagement in rule-governed competition …
The Senses and the History of Philosophy
David Howes, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law
Journal Article David Howes, Sensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law Get access David HowesSensorial Investigations: A History of the Senses in Anthropology, Psychology, and Law, University Park: Penn State University Press, 2023. Pp. xiv + 290. $29.95. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-2710-9501-1. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271096261 Brian Glenney Brian Glenney Norwich University, USA [email protected] Search fo…
Skateboarding in the Anthropocene: Grey spaces of polluted leisure
This paper explores a symbolic environmental schema of skateboarding through the concept of ‘grey spaces’. We provide evidence of how skateboarding demonstrates a greyness – political and environmental ambiguities, contradictions, liminality, nuances and paradoxes – to outdoor urban leisure in the Anthropocene. We build on a chromatic turn in leisure studies which attends to blue and green spaces; however, we shift focus from the therapeutic disc…
The sonic spectrums of skateboarding: From Polarity to Plurality
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
A Pluralist’s Guide to Solving Molyneux’s Problem
Puzzle Pluralism
Polluted Leisure Enskilment: Skateboarding as Ecosophy
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 le…
Skateboard crime and the pirating of urban space
This paper seeks to analyze “skate crime:” what skateboarders do, why they do it, and why it is criminalized even in public spaces. I begin with a case example of the Dolores Street Hill Bomb in San Francisco, a seemingly over-criminalized annual event that treats skaters as enemies of the city, a logic of enmity. This same logic was used to criminalize 17th–18th century “Golden Age” maritime piracy, a heuristic that helps assess the role that st…
Skateboarding and the Senses: Skills, Surfaces, and Spaces
This book presents a new perspective on skateboarding, centred on the senses, skill acquisition, embodiment, and the concept of "city craft". Skateboarding and the Senses traces how skaters use their skilled bodies to bring vitality to contested spaces. Building on sensory anthropology, the book draws connections between the diverse ways skaters move and their boundless drive for social action - from rebellious interventionism to a critical engag…
Skateboarding and the surplus value of city play
Cities, defined materially by concreted surfaces and geometrically shaped structures, have a novel ecology, a "grey space". Grey spaces are criticized for their lack of salubrity in contrast to blue and green spaces enriched by natural biodiversity. How might cities become salubrious? We consider urban play as a source of surplus value both in the context of capitalist frames of labour vs. leisure and societal frames of obedience vs. deviance. We…
Skateparks, pollution, and decolonisation
The skater’s ear: A Sensuous Complexity of Skateboarding Sound
Of skills and tools: Skateboarding as city craft
This paper seeks to understand the sports- and crafts-like skills skaters acquire and maintain to navigate the built environment. Building upon the anthropology of the senses and the praxis of enskilment, we argue that skaters engage in a plurality of complementary learning strategies, from institutionalized sport-based regimes to in situ city play. Our contribution to recent ethnographic scholarship on skateboarding is that we position its enski…
Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Outdoor and Experiential Education (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works)