Leisure and Human Rights

This book argues for, while critically engaging with, the proposition that leisure is a human right. The structure of the book sets this proposition within historical and international legal human rights contexts, particularly exploring the human rights/legal conception of leisure as time and activities compared with other conceptualisations arising in the field of leisure studies.The implications for different socio-economic, age-related, gender and ethnic groups are also explored. The book will be of interest to leisure studies scholars unfamiliar with the detail of the concept of human rights and human rights scholars unfamiliar with the concept of leisure as a human right in international law.

Shows how human rights can contribute a significant dimension to leisure studies discourse Analyses leisure as a comprehensive whole, including participation in culture, sport, tourism Discusses activity-specific rights as well as group-specific rights

Autorentext

A.J. (Tony) Veal is Adjunct Professor in the Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and previously worked at the then Polytechnic of North London and the University of Birmingham. He is past president of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and former chair of the UK Leisure Studies Association. He is co-chair, with Atara Sivan, of the World Leisure Organisation's Human Rights Group.

Inhalt

Part I Introduction.- 1. Leisure and human rights: an introduction.- 2.Human rights in the modern era.- 3. Leisure and human rights.- Part II Activity-Specific Rights.- 4. Human rights and leisure time.- 5. Human rights and sport.- 6. Human rights and travel/tourism.- 7. Human rights and culture, heritage and the arts.- Part III Group-Specific Rights.- 8. Human rights and children's play.- 9. Human rights and women's leisure.- 10. Human rights and people with disabilities.- 11. Human rights and the leisure/culture of ethnic minorities.- 12. Leisure and other human rights,- 13. Animal rights in human-animal leisure interactions.- Part IV Public Policy.- 14. The UN human rights system.- 15. Human rights and leisure public policy.- 16. Appendix: human rights treaties/declarations (extracts).