Philosophy of Leisure

Sager, Alex

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“…We document how homeless people find agentive ways to enrich their lives, seek respite and reflect on their harrowing situations through leisure. Our analysis demonstrates how leisure is vital for homeless people’s humanity, wellbeing, and constitutes a fundamental human right (Sager, 2013). Scholarship on this topic is limited (Borchard, 2010; Hodgetts, 2008, 2010; Klitzing, 2004; Perreault et al, 2013).…”

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“…The Aristotlean ethical notion of human flourishing underpins the obligation of society to provide the resources and conditions to enable all people to grow and develop meaningful lives (Sager, 2013). Relatedly, Higgins-Desbiolles (2006) point out, Article 24 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that: ‘… everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitations of working hours and periodic holidays with pay’.…”

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“…The dualism between paid employment and leisure has long been problematised because it can reproduce patriarchal assumptions regarding what counts as work, and this obscures the leisure pursuits of people who are not in paid employment. Further, leisure and work constitute overlapping domains where ‘good jobs’ often allow for dimensions associated with leisure, such as freedom, creativity and fun (Dart, 2013; Rojek and Blackshaw, 2013; Sager, 2013). For the growing precariat classes, however, the divisions between work and leisure may be hardening given that their jobs are increasingly experienced as oppressively rigid, regulated and lacking creativity.…”

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“…As Dart (2013: 398–399) notes ‘… the work–leisure couplet should not be made redundant but, rather, is in need of regular modification and re-grounding in order to understand the specificities of lived experience’. Such a dynamic approach is important because leisure is a situated, complex, pluralistic and contested phenomenon, which invokes issues of freedom, respite, play and personal growth (Dart, 2013; Sager, 2013).…”

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“…We will document how, for street homeless people, leisure is comprised of an evolving set of such situated practices (Crouch, 2006) through which they explore themselves and their place in the world. Following Sager (2013), we propose that leisure emerges when homeless people engage in practices that they find valuable for their own sake, but which can also offer respite, meaning and escapes from the grind of everyday life. Our research is in keeping with the assertion that leisure research should adopt a pluralistic orientation in documenting how societal structures and power relations shape leisure spaces, and inform efforts to support social inclusion and distributive justice (Crouch, 2006; Rojek, 2005; Sager, 2013).…”

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Homeless people’s leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes

Hodgetts

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2015

Urban Studies

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With increased inequity and polarisation in society, access to leisure has become even more crucial for ensuring the humanity and health of people living in urban poverty. Homeless people constitute the hard edge of urban poverty, and literally embody broader inequities in society given that they face increased risk of illness and an early death. Scholars have explored the material and psychosocial hardships experienced by homeless people, but focus less on leisure. This article explores the role of leisure in the everyday lives of 99 homeless people in New Zealand and England. We document various leisure activities across different urban spaces and consider the complexities of leisure in how homeless people make meaning of, cope with and survive street life in the city.

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The Digitised Public Sphere: Re-Defining Democratic Cultures or Phantasmagoria?

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2011

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Does an increasingly interconnected world provide new opportunities for civil society to enhance democratic practice -or are human relationships diminished and emptied of their vitality as carefully constructed online profi les proliferate? Debates have emerged about the effi cacy of a digital democracy and its ramifi cations for public politics. This paper follows the specifi c argument concerning some of the claims from online proponents of the potential of the Internet to create a more informed and accountable democratic culture. It is concerned with questions of the transmission of values and some of the cognitive aspects of this technology. Some techno-futurists are in no doubt concerning the political implications of a more interconnected age; others are more sanguine about the intrusiveness of this new technology. For example, there are numerous claims concerning the potential for Internet-based forums to enrich democratic practice, of breaking-down sovereign borders and establishing a pluralistic transnational global public sphere. On the other hand, political realists are skeptical of new communications technology and its potential to transform democratic life, which is still essentially embedded in the polity of nation states. This paper does not add to this burgeoning literature, but rather focuses on "democratic values" by posing questions about "digital democracy" and whether or not this new technology is leading to greater levels of public participation, social inclusion and empathy.The article concludes with questions and considerations about language, thought and judgment, and whether or not this latest transformation of the public sphere and new experimentation with novel forms of communicative action, fundamentally alter our traditional conceptions of the intersubjective basis of political reasoning.

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Telling translocal histories: Reading the migrant life-worlds in Gulf-Keralan writing

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This article discusses three Malayalam texts written by Gulf-Kerala migrants: V. Musafar Ahammed’s (2014) Kudiyettakkarante Veedu [House of the emigrant], a collection of memoirs; Benyamin’s (2016) Kudiyettam: Pravasathinte Malayalivazhikal [Emigration: Malayali routes of exile], an anthology of essays; and Sam Pynummoodu’s (2016) Kuwait Indian Kudiyetta Charitram: Kuwaitile Indian Pravasavum Malayali Sanidhyavum [A history of Indian emigration into Kuwait: India’s Emigration to and Malayali Presence in Kuwait], a historical work. This essay introduces them as microhistorical writings that attempt to document Kerala’s diasporic history — in particular, the history of the Gulf-Keralan diaspora to which the writers belong. At the micro-level, these diasporic histories are distinguished by their multiplicity, particularity, and dialogic association. Furthermore, this essay maintains that the writings acknowledge the agential force of the migrant subject, thereby reinforcing the primacy of the migrant writer and migrant protagonists. In the course of translating subjective experiences into vivid moments of articulation, migrant memory summons a heterogeneous narrative fabric that is characterized by epistemic disjunctures and methodological shifts. Consequently, these texts present an alternative to the canonical literature (as manifested within the ambit of state and academic engagements) on Gulf-Kerala migration, thereby reinventing the dominant historical discourse and recontextualizing history in the private realm of embodied narratives.

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Philosophy of Leisure

Cited by 6 publications

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Homeless people’s leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes

Homeless people’s leisure practices within and beyond urban socio-scapes

The Digitised Public Sphere: Re-Defining Democratic Cultures or Phantasmagoria?

Telling translocal histories: Reading the migrant life-worlds in Gulf-Keralan writing

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