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Childhoods & Leisure

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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.

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ISBN: 9783031337918
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Author: Utsa Mukherjee
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 259 pages
Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Genres: Sociology: sport and leisure
Sociology: family and relationships
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

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