Childhoods & Leisure

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.

Builds on and contributes to both childhood studies and leisure studies literature Presents cutting-edge research about children's leisure from across the globe Analyses questions of child rights, inter-generational relations, child agency, and social change

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

Inhalt

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.-