Description
Book SynopsisHow has it come to be that paid work is seen as the primary avenue for attaining sustenance, self-esteem, and human dignity?
This book encourages scholars and practitioners to rethink the relationships between leisure, social policy, and human development. Drawing on the expertise of some of the most innovative minds in the field of leisure studies from across Canada, Decentring Work questions how and why we have come to value paid employment as the marker of social success and individual self-worth and, more provocatively, investigates the role that leisure might play in its stead.
The contributors probe the dimensions of marginalization and oppression experienced by groups such as women living in poverty, aboriginal youth, new immigrants, and older adults and show how leisure can be a vital element in confronting issues in the social construction of homelessness, incarceration, dementia care, disability, and ethnicity. Using a mix of approaches from in-depth empirical studies to more conceptually driven discussions, the chapters in Decentring Work weave together effectively into a treatise on notions of work, leisure, power, and social change.
This collection is essential reading for anyone in the field of leisure studies, recreation, or social work who is interested in the role that leisure can and should play in reshaping human and community development.
Trade ReviewHighlights important social issues and policies that marginalize large segments of the population and negatively affect citizens' opportunities to experience recreation and leisure . . . relevant for practitioners and researchers in community recreation and leisure services [and] people who work in public policy and social service organizations. Laura L. Payne, Journal of Leisure Research
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Susan M. Arai, Heather Mair, and Donald G. Ried
- Part One: Leisure and Social Policy
- Leisure and Social Policy
- Don Dawson
- Addressing Inadequate Leisure Access Politics Through Citizen Engagement
- Janna Taylor and Wendy Frizby
- Part Two: Leisure and Alternative Policy Frameworks for Health and Social Development
- Removing the Scar: Social Solidarity and Leisure Policy
- Donald G. Reid, B. Leigh Golden, and Leah Katerberg
- Improving the Lives of Persons with Dementia and Their Families through Enhanced Social Policies, Leisure Policy, and Practice
- Sherry L. Dupuis
- Poverty and Leisure as Social Determinants of Health: The Politics of Oppression and Transformation in Social Policy
- Susan M. Arai and Rishia Burke
- Part Three: Social Policy from the Perspective of the Margins
- Multiculturalism and Leisure Policy: Enhancing the Delivery of Leisure Services and Supports for Immigrants and Minority Canadians
- Susan Tirone
- Leisure and Social Development in the Context of Women who Offend
- Darla Fortune, Alison Pedlar, and Felice Yuen
- Restoring Our Collective Obligation: Exploring Opportunities for Addressing Homelessness and Social Housing
- Heather Mair and Dawn Trussell
- Hold Gently People Who Create Space on the Margins: Urban Aboriginal-Canadian Young People and Hip-Hop Rythems of "Leisures"
- Karen M Fox and Brett D. Lashua
- Conclusions: Excersising our "Leisure Imagination"
- Heather Mair, Noald G. Reid and Susan M. Arai
- Notes
- Index
