Childhoods & Leisure: Cross-Cultural and Inter-Disciplinary Dialogues (Leisure Studies in a Global Era)

✍ Scribed by Utsa Mukherjee (editor)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 270
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
When Leisure Studies Met Childhood Studies: Laying Grounds for Cross-Cultural and International Studies of Children’s Leisure
Children and Childhood
Leisure Through a Cross-Cultural Lens
International and Cross-Cultural Study of Children’s Leisure
Studying Children’s Leisure Through Social Evolutionary Lens
Studying Children’s Leisure Through ‘Children’s Culture’ Lens
Studying Children’s Leisure Through Developmental Lens
Studying Children’s Leisure Through Critical Childhood Studies Lens
Organisation of the Book
References
Part I: Children’s Rights and Social Justice
Chapter 2: Whose leisure is it anyway? The challenges of providing children’s leisure from a cross-cultural playwork perspective
Introduction: The Evolution of PARS Playwork
Adulteration and the Emic-etic Dilemma
PARS in Translation
The Emic-Etic Politics of Space
Politics, Policy, Parenting and PARS
Tensions for Adults ‘providing children’s leisure’ from a PARS Perspective
Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Play for All: Fostering Inclusive Play Spaces in India
Introduction
Play and Disability in India
Efforts Towards Designing Inclusive Play Spaces in India
Inclusive Play
Designing Inclusive Play Spaces- The Case of Kilikili
Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: “Social Justice” Despite Sickness: Play and Leisure for Children and Young People in Hospital
Fraser’s Social Justice and Parity of Participation
North American Perceptions of Children’s Rights and Abilities
The State of Children’s Rights in Healthcare Settings
Certified Child Life Specialists and Children’s Healthcare Rights
The Development of Hospital-Based Play Programs
Re-conceptualizing Children’s Agency in Hospital Play
Quadrant One: Programmed Play
Quadrant Two: Set-up/Intentional Play
Quadrant Three: Flexible/ “Give Back Control” Play
Quadrant Four: Open Door/Organic Play
Summarizing the Four Quadrant Model for Children’s Agency in Hospital Play
Leisure, Play, and Power for Hospitalized Children
Reconsidering Child Life Practice and Hospital Play Paradigms
The Road Ahead
References
Part II: Social Identities and Cultural Politics
Chapter 5: Hobby Horses: A Hobby, Sport or Pure Play? A Contemporary Plaything as Part of Girlhood Leisure Activities in Finland
Introduction
What Is the Hobby Horse Phenomenon About?
Young Women on (Hobby) HorseBack: From Modern Play to Social Media and Racetracks
The Many Offerings of the Toy horse—Physical, Functional, Fictional and Affective
Physicality (Materiality and Artefactuality)
Functionality (Playability)
Fictionality (Storytelling)
Affectivity (Emotional Attachment)
Hobby Horses, a Mobilizing Toy Media
Discussion: How the Toy Horse Became ‘Sportified’
Conclusions: Full Gallop Towards Sportifying Media Play
References
Chapter 6: Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Policing Children and Cinema’s Public Space
6.3 Cinema in the Making of a White City
6.4 The Coming of Age of Cinemas
6.5 Conclusion
References
Archival Sources and Newspapers
Books, Theses and Articles
Part III: Space, Place and Meaning-Making
Chapter 7: Children’s Participation and Leisure Possibilities in an Institutionalized Leisure Arena: The Case of Swedish School-Age Educare Centres
Introduction
The Swedish School-Age Educare Centre
‘Meaningful leisure’ at the Intersection Between Leisure, Education and Care
Participation
Children’s Understanding of Leisure and Participation in the SAEC Setting
SAEC: A Place for Leisure Opportunities
SAEC: A Place with Leisure Limits
Being a Pupil in an Institutionalized Leisure Practice
Institutionalized Leisure?: Discussion and Implications
References
Chapter 8: Children’s Meanings of Third Places for Leisure in Jakarta’s Low-Income Neighbourhoods
Introduction
Third Places as Leisure Spaces
Play as a Leisure Activity
Methodology
Study Context
Participatory Drawing and Daily Conversation: Children as the Regulars” of Third Places
Findings & Discussion
The Contexts of Children’s Leisure Activities
Children’s Meanings of Third Places for Leisure Experiences
The Built Third Places: The ‘Warung’ and the ‘Masjid’
The Pop-up Third Places: The Street and the Fishing Game
Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Negotiating Informalities of Leisure: Leisure Among Slum-Dwelling Children Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines
Introduction
Leisure as Tactics
Methodology
Children as Mediators of Leisure
Slum Conditions
Leisure as Tactics in Slum Informalities
Leisure and Bio-culture Informalities
Slum Collective Leisure
Continuum of Negotiations: Tactics, Nuisance, and Pride
Celebrated Informalities, Romanticised Agency?
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10: Playing, Working, and Learning in Flux: Perspectives from African Post-forager Childhoods
Introduction: Leisure, Culture, and Children
Background: The San and the Hadza
Leisure and Hunter-Gatherer Foundational Schemas
Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods
Social Change and Post-forager Children
Concluding Remarks
References
Index