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The Courage to Be Leisured [PDF]

Social Forces, 1981
Many of man's most significant activities, the processes of creativity, invention, discovery, are ultimately based on a certain detached, playful attitude toward experience. Many of his most vital achievements, the results of these processes, could not occur in the absence of civilized reflection and purposeful daydreaming.
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New Leisure and Leisure Customization

World Leisure Journal, 2009
Abstract New leisure is any activity of recent invention undertaken in free time, in the sense that a number of people in a region, nation, or larger sociocultural unit have only lately taken it up as a pastime. The goal here is to examine the nature and import of new leisure activities.
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The Business of Leisure, the Leisure of Business

2021
This chapter explores the shifting yet resilient meanings and motivations of participating in corporate outings for workers in twenty-first-century Japan. It centers on hostess clubs that show how spaces continue to represent both the culture of care and business relationships in corporate Japan and the mediation of gender ideologies for workers facing
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Leisure Despite Constraint: The Impact of Leisure Constraints on Leisure Participation

Journal of Leisure Research, 1991
High levels of constraint have been assumed to lead to restricted engagement in leisure activities.
Tess Kay, Guy Jackson
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Digital Leisure and Communicative Leisure

2015
It is easy to turn to the Net to find out what it means to be alternative, to be a goth or a punk or a metaller. One can find Wikipedia and other forms of wiki pages discussing the history, the music and the fashions, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of pages set up by people to try to define this alternative subculture as they understand it ...
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The interrelationship of leisure and play: play as leisure, leisure as play. Leisure studies in a global era

Annals of Leisure Research, 2016
Stebbins’ new book, The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play: Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play (2015) provides timely insight to further the scholarship of leisure, the serious leisure perspective...
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Migration, migrants and leisure: meaningful leisure?

Leisure Studies, 2015
This special issue looks at the ways in which migrants’ leisure activities contribute to self-perception, daily life organisation, multiple embeddedness and sense of belonging.
Mata-Codesal, D, Peperkamp, EMJ, Tiesler, NC   +2 more
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Leisure-rich and leisure-poor: the leisure patterns of young adults

Leisure Studies, 1984
Some of the results of an investigation into the leisure patterns and lifestyles of 200 ‘young adults’ living in the Potteries are presented. On the basis of selected attributes of their leisure behaviour, respondents were classified into six leisure activity types and ordered along a spectrum from ‘leisure-rich’ to ‘leisure-poor’.
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Leisure Time and Leisure Space

1989
Leisure time and leisure space are not fixed and definite features of society. ‘Nineteenth and twentieth century life,’ writes Yeo,1 ‘has been full of attempts to divide performing from spectating, street space from play space, education and welfare from recreation, politics from the rest of life, values and choices from production, work from ...
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The Meaning of Leisure

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 1999
Actively creating leisure experiences, or authoring leisure, allows older adults to achieve satisfaction and improve their quality of life.
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