Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment Specialized Play /

• Main Author: Kjølsrød, Lise (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Political sociology.; Culture.; Democracy.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Political Sociology.; Sociology of Culture.

This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct micro...