Time, Freedom and the Self The Cultural Construction of "Free" Time /

• Main Author: Shir-Wise, Michelle (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Subjects: Sports-Sociological aspects.; Industrial sociology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Culture.; Cultural studies.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Work.; Self and Identity.; Sociology of Culture.; Cultural Studies.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise examines not only what people do in t...