Childhoods & Leisure Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
| Series: | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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