Overview
- Offers a strong theoretical basis, as well as empirical illustration and analysis based on new studies of collectors and collecting, bird-watching, backpacking, role-playing and more; interviews with key informants; biographies and online presentations.
- Views play as a basis for social relations and knowledge building across national and international boundaries.
- Analyses why citizens prefer mediated forms of action to the more direct forms that are usually observed in social science research.
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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About this book
This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena.
Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct micro-processes of social protection, become informed and skilled, and achieve influence via complex leisure. Through an in-depth analysis of a range of leisure practices, this book demonstrates where players belong in the political landscapes of modern democracies.
Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment will be of interest to students and scholars of leisure, recreational, and cultural studies, as well as sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists studying identity construction, emerging social worlds, and novel channels of political participation in contemporary society.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment
Book Subtitle: Specialized Play
Authors: Lise Kjølsrød
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46287-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46286-2Published: 06 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46287-9Published: 24 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 174
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Democracy