Full Description
How 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.
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
