Becoming Political: An Expanding Role for Critical Leisure Studies
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Justin Harmon, Assistant Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This article explores the intersection of politics and leisure, pointing to the fact that power has always been present in leisure activities, settings, practices, and institutions. In noting some of the past contributions of leisure scholarship, it also highlights a need for increasingly political leisure research, where knowledge production, epistemologies, and methodologies help unpack multiple critical leisures. Using engagements with Foucauldian biopolitics, political ecology, and radical political thought, this article sets the stage for the eight manuscripts that engage with critical components of political dimensions of leisure. In light of the pressing catastrophes of our time, we contend that scholars and educators can and should be engaged in building a more critically diverse and intellectually productive academy.
Becoming Political: An Expanding Role for Critical Leisure Studies
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Leisure Sciences, 40(7), 649-662
- Language: English
- Date: 2019
- Keywords
- biopolitics, engagement, political ecology