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Just leisure

equity, social exclusion and identity

A strong tradition of welfarist thinking in leisure studies has meant that issues of equity have always featured prominently in the literature of the field. In recent years, however, this approach to the leisure studies agenda has been roundly challenged from two perspectives, one theoretical and the other practical. Theoretical critique has been effected through the destabilising forces of postmodernism on formerly taken-for-granted social categories (age, class, gender). Practical critique has been effected through the equally destabilising forces of commercial realism on the formerly taken-for-granted emancipatory project that underpinned much leisure research. Issues of justice, fairness and value have not been lost, however, in the turmoil of these debates. If anything, they have become even more sharply focused. As the editors of Just Leisure: policy, ethics and professionalism (the companion to this volume) have written, 'The idea that leisure might centrally be related to matters of ethical significance is not a new one'. The use of deliberately ambiguous term 'just', then, plays nicely into both the postmodern and the commercial attacks on leisure studies, its nature and purposes. What is just (fair) in leisure (service provision, consumption management or research) still concerns us as much as whether these activities are just (simply) leisure. This book comprises two sections: the first addresses Equity and Social Exclusion and the second explores aspects of Identity.

Uitgever(s): Leisure Studies Association (LSA),

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Celia Brackenridge
David Howe
Fiona Jordan

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sociologie
vrije tijd

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