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Leisure satisfaction and subjective wellbeing

, 2010
Leisure satisfaction and subjective ...
A Mussap (14448282), J Hribernik (14480562)   +1 more
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A Study of Perceived Freedom in Leisure Leisure Boredom and Leisure Participation in Junior High School Students

, 2009
[[abstract]]This research aimed at studying the perceived leisure freedom, leisure boredom, and leisure participation of junior high school students. A self-designed research tool, ?Questionnaire of perceived leisure freedom, leisure boredom, and leisure
Huang,Chien-Wen
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Antifa Theory: Beyond the Western Metaphysics of Maturity

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article I ask whether the main traditions of Western political thought, republicanism, conservatism, liberalism, and socialism, can supply an account of human flourishing capable of sustaining a broad antifascist movement. Each tradition defines full humanity as an achievement reserved for the mature adult and treats the child as a ...
Toby Rollo
wiley   +1 more source

Broke and Broken: The Crises Facing Local Government in England

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 199-205, January/March 2025.
Abstract English local government faces a perilous position owing to insufficient funding, structural issues and capacity challenges. Fourteen years of austerity have significantly reduced council budgets, while increased demand for services—particularly adult social care—has strained resources.
David Jeffery
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
wiley   +1 more source

A Study on The Concept of Leisure Participation and Leisure Constraints of Aboriginals in Nantou County

, 2010
[[abstract]]The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among the leisure participation and constraints of aboriginal people, and compared the different background variables.
SHEN PAO HUA
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Modern theatrics of love: desires and consumption in the Indian middle class Le théâtre moderne de l'amour : désirs et consommation dans la classe moyenne indienne

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
wiley   +1 more source

Equal before time: on the sensory suspension of accumulated time in Sichuan, China Égaux devant le temps : suspension sensorielle du temps accumulé au Sichuan (Chine)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
wiley   +1 more source

Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
wiley   +1 more source

Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
wiley   +1 more source