The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory

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

ISBN 978-1-137-56478-8 ISBN 978-1-137-56479-5 (eBook)

DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5

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Editors

Karl Spracklen

Carnegie Faculty

Leeds Beckett University

Leeds, United Kingdom

Brett Lashua

Carnegie Faculty

Leeds Beckett University

Leeds, United Kingdom

Erin Sharpe

Department of Recreation and Leisure

Studies

Brock University

St. Catharines, ON, Canada

Spencer Swain

Health and Life Sciences

York St John’s University

Leeds, United Kingdom

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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.

Acknowledgements

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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

Contents

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

Contents 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

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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

Contents 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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Leisure, Risk and Reflexivity 705

Ken Roberts

Thinking Through Post-structuralism in Leisure Studies:

A Detour Around “Proper” Humanist Knowledges 719

Lisbeth A. Berbary

Who Should Inhabit Leisure? Disability, Embodiment, and 

Access to Leisure 743

Mary Ann Devine and Ken Mobily

Leisure and Diaspora 765

Daniel Burdsey

You Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Hyperreality and Leisure

Theory 783

Steve Redhead

Leisure in the Current Interregnum: Exploring the Social

Theories of Anthony Giddens and Zygmunt Bauman 799

Spencer Swain

The Politics of Leisure Mobilities: Borders and Rebordering

Processes in Europe 817

Kevin Hannam and Basagaitz Guereño-Omil

“Obligations and Entitlements”: Neoliberalism,

Governmentality, and Community Parks 835

Trent Newmeyer

Disneyization and the Provision of Leisure Experiences 855

Simon Beames and Mike Brown

Contents xiii

Leisure, Social Space, and Belonging 873

Troy Glover

Subversive Imagination: Smoothing Space for Leisure, Identity,

and Politics 891

Brian E. Kumm and Corey W. Johnson

Against Limits: A Post-structural Theorizing of Resistance in 

Leisure 911

Erin Sharpe

Index 927

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Mahfoud Amara joined Qatar University in the fall of 2015. He is Assistant

Professor in Sport Management and Policy at the College of Arts and Sciences

(Sport Science Program). Before joining Qatar University he was Assistant

Professor (from 2004 to 2015) in Sport Policy and Management and Deputy

Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research in the School of Sport,

Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University. Dr Amara has a spe￾cific interest in sport business, culture, and politics in Arab and Muslim con￾texts. His other research interest is sport, multiculturalism, and intercultural

dialogue, including the provision of sport for ethnic minorities/sport and social

inclusion/sport and integration. In 2012 he published a new book on Sport

Politics and Society in the Arab World (Palgrave). He is the co-editor with Alberto

Testa of a new book Sport in Islam and in Muslim Communities (2015).

Susan Arai is a registered psychotherapist with the College of Registered

Psychotherapists of Ontario and mindfulness practitioner emphasizing anti￾oppressive, liberatory, and intersectional negotiations of difference in relation￾ships and communities. Sue holds positions as an Adjunct Professor in the

Departments of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo

and Health Sciences at Brock University. Her research interests focus on mind￾fulness; trauma, mental health, and healing through leisure; therapeutic rela￾tionships; therapeutic recreation practices; and community inclusion and health

promotion. Sue has worked with practitioners in hospitals, healthy communi￾ties initiatives, social planning councils, disability and mental health organiza￾tions, and community health centres in Ontario.

Notes on Contributors

xvi Notes on Contributors

Maria Manuel Rocha Teixeira Baptista is a lecturer and researcher of Cultural

Studies in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of

Aveiro, since 1993. She graduated at the Universities of Porto, Coimbra, and

Aveiro in Philosophy, Social Psychology, and Culture, respectively. She defended

her PhD thesis on one of the most important Portuguese and European contem￾porary essayists, Eduardo Lourenço. In 2013 she passed with success her associa￾tion exams in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. She is currently the

Director of the Cultural Studies PhD Programme at the University of Aveiro

and, in the cultural field, also coordinates and participates in several research

projects in Portugal and Brazil. She is a co-director of Lusophone Review of

Cultural Studies and she is also an editor and referee in several other national and

international scientific reviews. She has organized four International Congresses

in Cultural Studies in last four years and collaborated in several other scientific

committees of congress and books on Cultural Studies. She directs several PhD

and master’s theses in leisure, gender, media, tourism, race and migration.

Simon Beames is a senior lecturer in Outdoor Education at the University of

Edinburgh. He has published four books: Understanding Educational Expeditions,

Learning Outside the Classroom, Outdoor Adventure and Social Theory, and most

recently (with Mike Brown), Adventurous Learning: A pedagogy for a Changing

World.

Lisbeth A. Berbary is an assistant professor in Recreation and Leisure Studies.

She holds a PhD in Leisure Studies, with graduate certificates in women’s studies

and interdisciplinary qualitative research. Lisbeth is committed to qualitative

inquiry informed by both critical and deconstructive theories, and the postmod￾ern, narrative, and ontological turns. She has particular interest in representing

her findings through accessible and collaborative creative analytic practices, such

as ethno-screenplay, slam poetry, and composite narrative. Currently, Lisbeth is

co-constructing zines, comics, and graphic novels to represent her work with

bisexual/pansexual-identified individuals concerning their navigation of bipho￾bia and bisexual erasure.

Pauwke Berkers is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Art and Culture at the

Department of Arts and Culture Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He

has published widely on issues of ethno-racial and gender inequality in arts and

culture in—amongst others—Gender & Society, Poetics, Cultural Sociology, and

the Journal of Gender Studies.

Paul Blackledge is Professor of Political Theory at Leeds Beckett University.

He is the author of Marxism and Ethics (2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory

Notes on Contributors xvii

of History (2006), and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (2004). He is

also the co-editor of Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary

Aristotelianism (2011), Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism: Essays

and Articles 1953–1974 (2008), Revolutionary Aristotelianism: Ethics, Resistance

and Utopia (2008), and Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (Palgrave:

2002).

Phil Borell and Hamuera Kahi are lecturers at Aotahi: School of Māori and

Indigenous Studies at the University of Canterbury. Both Phil and Hamuera

have used sport as a platform for their research, with Phil primarily working

with Polynesian masculinities in rugby league and Hamuera examining race and

racism in New Zealand rugby. Phil and Hamuera were both raised in

Christchurch but whakapapa further north to Ngati Ranginui and Ngati, Paoa

respectively.

Mary Breunig is an associate professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies and

Graduate Program Director of the Social Justice and Equity Studies Program at

Brock University. Her scholarship focuses on social and environmental justice in

Outdoor Experiential Education. She has authored numerous books and papers.

She is a research consultant and former Outward Bound Instructor and a

National Outdoor Leadership School Instructor as well as past president of the

Association for Experiential Education. She is an outdoor enthusiast and urban

flaneur. To find out more and to access her publications, visit marybreunig.com.

Mike Brown is a senior lecturer at The University of Waikato. His teaching and

research are focused on outdoor learning. He is the co-author of A pedagogy of

Place: Outdoor Education for a Changing World; Adventurous Learning: A Pedagogy

for a Changing World; and co-editor of Seascapes: Shaped by the Sea. He is a keen

sailor and occasional mountain bike rider.

Daniel Burdsey is Deputy Head of School (Research) in the School of Sport

Service Management at the University of Brighton, UK. His research focuses on

the sociology of race and popular culture, especially in relation to football and

to the English seaside. His article on British Asians, diaspora, and football was

selected for a special issue of Sociology, celebrating prominent contributions to

the study of race in that journal (edited by Nasar Meer and Anoop Nayak,

2013). His most recent book is Race, Place and the Seaside: Postcards from the

Edge (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Robert Cassar is a lecturer in marketing currently employed by the Ministry of

Education in Malta. He holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the