The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-17
Islam and Leisure....Pages 19-34
Centring Leisure: A Hindu View of Leisure....Pages 35-48
Listening to Nineteenth-Century Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Voices; Re-imagining the Possibilities for Leisure....Pages 49-70
Leisure in Latin America: A Conceptual Analysis....Pages 71-85
The Sabbath as the Ideal Manifestation of Leisure in Traditional Jewish Thought....Pages 87-106
Leisure Activities in Southeast Asia, from Pre-colonial Times to the Present....Pages 107-125
Sport, Leisure and Culture in Māori Society....Pages 127-141
Leisure Experience and Engaged Buddhism: Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom and Justice in Leisure Studies....Pages 143-168
Traditional Sport in Japan....Pages 169-186
Leisure and the Dao....Pages 187-201
“Have Leisure and Know that I Am God”: Christianity and Leisure....Pages 203-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-227
Leisure in Classical Greek Philosophy....Pages 229-247
John Locke: Recreation, Morality and Paternalism in Leisure Policy....Pages 249-269
Rebuking the Enlightenment Establishments, Bourgeois and Aristocratic: Rousseau’s Ambivalence About Leisure....Pages 271-288
Contracting the Right to Roam....Pages 289-307
Leisure and Radical Jacobinism....Pages 309-323
John Stuart Mill and Leisure....Pages 325-338
Unproductive Leisure and Resented Work: A Brief Incursion in Hegel (and in Nietzsche)....Pages 339-354
John Dewey: Purposeful Play as Leisure....Pages 355-370
Front Matter....Pages 223-227
Durkheim and Leisure....Pages 371-384
Why Veblen Matters: The Role of Status Seeking in Contemporary Leisure....Pages 385-399
Max Weber and Leisure....Pages 401-416
Flow Theory and Leisure....Pages 417-436
Serious Leisure: Past, Present, and Possibilities....Pages 437-451
Front Matter....Pages 453-455
Marx, Alienation and Dialectics Within Leisure....Pages 457-471
The Dialectics of Work and Leisure in Marx, Lukács, and Lefebvre....Pages 473-486
“Let’s Murder the Moonlight!” Futurism, Anti-Humanism and Leisure....Pages 487-505
The Frankfurt School, Leisure and Consumption....Pages 507-522
Leisure, Instrumentality and Communicative Action....Pages 523-538
Leisure and Hegemony....Pages 539-556
Reclaiming the “F-word”: Structural Feminist Theories of Leisure....Pages 557-576
A Critical Expansion of Theories on Race and Ethnicity in Leisure Studies....Pages 577-594
Leisure, Media, and Consumption: The Flavour of Rock in Rio....Pages 595-616
Leisure and “The Civilising Process”....Pages 617-632
The Politics of Leisure in Totalitarian Societies....Pages 633-650
Leisure, Community, and the Stranger....Pages 651-665
Front Matter....Pages 667-682
Postmodernity and Leisure....Pages 683-687
Leisure, Risk and Reflexivity....Pages 689-704
Front Matter....Pages 705-718
Thinking Through Post-structuralism in Leisure Studies: A Detour Around “Proper” Humanist Knowledges....Pages 683-687
Who Should Inhabit Leisure? Disability, Embodiment, and Access to Leisure....Pages 719-741
Leisure and Diaspora....Pages 743-764
You Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Hyperreality and Leisure Theory....Pages 765-781
Leisure in the Current Interregnum: Exploring the Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman....Pages 783-797
The Politics of Leisure Mobilities: Borders and Rebordering Processes in Europe....Pages 799-816
“Obligations and Entitlements”: Neoliberalism, Governmentality, and Community Parks....Pages 817-834
Disneyization and the Provision of Leisure Experiences....Pages 835-854
Leisure, Social Space, and Belonging....Pages 855-871
Subversive Imagination: Smoothing Space for Leisure, Identity, and Politics....Pages 873-890
Against Limits: A Post-structural Theorizing of Resistance in Leisure....Pages 891-910
Back Matter....Pages 911-926
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