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THE PALGRAVE HANDBOOK OF LEISURE THEORY Edited by Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe and Spencer Swain The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory Karl Spracklen • Brett Lashua • Erin Sharpe • Spencer Swain Editors The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory Editors Karl Spracklen Erin Sharpe Carnegie Faculty Department of Recreation and Leisure Leeds Beckett University Studies Leeds, United Kingdom Brock University St. Catharines, ON, Canada Brett Lashua Carnegie Faculty Spencer Swain Leeds Beckett University Health and Life Sciences Leeds, United Kingdom York St John’s University Leeds, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-137-56478-8 ISBN 978-1-137-56479-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017931688 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover image © Andrew Holt / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. The registered company address is: The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom Acknowledgements We thank everyone at Palgrave—past and present—who have encour- aged us and worked with us to get this handbook into print over the last couple of years, but especially Sharla Plant and Amelia Derkatsch. We also thank M. Selim Yavuz for his very important editorial assistance at a crucial time. v Contents Introduction to the Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory 1 Karl Spracklen, Brett Lashua, Erin Sharpe, and Spencer Swain Part I Traditional Theories of Leisure 13 Erin Sharpe Islam and Leisure 19 Kristin Walseth and Mahfoud Amara Centring Leisure: A Hindu View of Leisure 35 Veena Sharma Listening to Nineteenth-Century Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Voices; Re-imagining the Possibilities for Leisure 49 Karen M. Fox and Lisa McDermott Leisure in Latin America: A Conceptual Analysis 71 Christianne Luce Gomes vii viii Contents The Sabbath as the Ideal Manifestation of Leisure in Traditional Jewish Thought 87 Nitza Davidovich Leisure Activities in Southeast Asia, from Pre-colonial Times to the Present 107 Sarah Moser, Esther Clinton, and Jeremy Wallach Sport, Leisure and Culture in Māori Society 127 Phil Borell and Hamuera Kahi Leisure Experience and Engaged Buddhism: Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom and Justice in Leisure Studies 143 Susan M. Arai Traditional Sport in Japan 169 Minoru Matsunami Leisure and the Dao 187 Steven Simpson and Samuel Cocks “Have Leisure and Know that I Am God”: Christianity and Leisure 203 Paul Heintzman Part II Rational Theories of Leisure 223 Karl Spracklen Leisure in Classical Greek Philosophy 229 Thanassis Samaras Conten ts ix John Locke: Recreation, Morality and Paternalism in Leisure Policy 249 Ian Lamond Rebuking the Enlightenment Establishments, Bourgeois and Aristocratic: Rousseau’s Ambivalence About Leisure 271 Matthew D. Mendham Contracting the Right to Roam 289 Wallace McNeish and Steve Olivier Leisure and Radical Jacobinism 309 Karl Spracklen John Stuart Mill and Leisure 325 Robert Snape Unproductive Leisure and Resented Work: A Brief Incursion in Hegel (and in Nietzsche) 339 Maria Manuel Baptista and Larissa Latif John Dewey: Purposeful Play as Leisure 355 Mary C. Breunig Durkheim and Leisure 371 Stratos Georgoulas Why Veblen Matters: The Role of Status Seeking in Contemporary Leisure 385 David Scott x Contents Max Weber and Leisure 401 Pauwke Berkers and Koen van Eijck Flow Theory and Leisure 417 Samuel D. Elkington Serious Leisure: Past, Present, and Possibilities 437 Karen Gallant Part III Structural Theories of Leisure 453 Spencer Swain Marx, Alienation and Dialectics Within Leisure 457 Bruce Erickson The Dialectics of Work and Leisure in Marx, Lukács, and Lefebvre 473 Paul Blackledge “Let’s Murder the Moonlight!” Futurism, Anti-Humanism and Leisure 487 Brett Lashua The Frankfurt School, Leisure and Consumption 507 Gabby Skeldon Leisure, Instrumentality and Communicative Action 523 Karl Spracklen Leisure and Hegemony 539 Robert Cassar Conten ts xi Reclaiming the “F-word”: Structural Feminist Theories of Leisure 557 Bronwen L. Valtchanov and Diana C. Parry A Critical Expansion of Theories on Race and Ethnicity in Leisure Studies 577 Rasul A. Mowatt Spasticus Auticus: Thinking About Disability, Culture and Leisure Beyond the “Walkie Talkies” 595 Viji Kuppan Leisure, Media, and Consumption: The Flavour of Rock in Rio 617 Ricardo Ferreira Freitas and Flávio Lins Leisure and “The Civilising Process” 633 Stephen Wagg The Politics of Leisure in Totalitarian Societies 651 Vassil Girginov Leisure, Community, and the Stranger 667 Elie Cohen-Gewerc Part IV Post-structural Theories of Leisure 683 Brett Lashua Postmodernity and Leisure 689 Mira Malick
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