Childhoods & Leisure

Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-33791-8
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 259 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Leisure Studies in a Global Era

This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children’s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children’s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies.

Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children’s lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections.

By drawing attention to children’s leisure – across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mukherjee, Utsa

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Kinder- & Jugendpsychiatrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: When Leisure Studies met Childhood Studies, Utsa Mukherjee.- Part I Children’s Rights and Social Justice.- 2. Whose leisure is it anyway? The challenges of providing children’s leisure from a cross-cultural playwork perspective, Shelly Newstead and Qian Zheng.- 3. Play for All: Fostering Inclusive Play Spaces in India, Rajashree Srinivasan.- 4. “Social Justice” despite Sickness: Play and Leisure for Children and Young People in Hospital, Jessika Boles and Joan Turner.- Part II Social Identities and Cultural Politics.- 5: Hobby Horses: A Hobby, Sport or Pure Play? A Contemporary Plaything as Part of Girlhood Leisure Activities in Finland.- 6.Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa.- Part III Space, Place and Meaning-Making.- 7: Children’s Participation and Leisure Possibilities in an Institutionalized Leisure Arena: The Case of Swedish School-Age Educare Centres.- 8. Children’s Meanings of Third Places for Leisure in Jakarta’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods.- 9. Negotiating Informalities of Leisure: Leisure Among Slum-Dwelling Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Philippines.- 10. Playing, Working, and Learning in Flux: Perspectives from African Post-forager Childhoods.-

Über Autor(innen)

Utsa Mukherjee is a Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London.