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Book SynopsisChildren’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-class families. Drawing on an innovative study of middle-class British Indian families, this book brings children’s and parents’ voices to the forefront and bridges childhood studies, family studies and leisure studies to theorise children’s leisure from a fresh perspective. Demonstrating the salience of both race and class in shaping leisure cultures within middle-class racialised families, this is an invaluable contribution to key sociological debates around leisure, childhoods and parenting ideologies.
Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Critical Sociology of Children’s Leisure: A Framework 3. Concerted Cultivation the Indian Way? Organised Leisure and Racial Parenting Strategy 4. The Fun, the Boring and the Racist Name Calling: How Children Make Sense of their Leisure Geographies 5. Negotiated Temporalities: Leisure, Time-Use and Everyday Life 6. Relating, Place-Making, and the Cultural Politics of Leisuring 7. Concluding Thoughts
