Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Children’s Rights and Social Justice
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Social Identities and Cultural Politics
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Space, Place and Meaning-Making
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About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Childhoods & Leisure
Book Subtitle: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues
Editors: Utsa Mukherjee
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33789-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33788-8Published: 13 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-33791-8Due: 14 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-33789-5Published: 12 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 259
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry