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Decentring Work - Critical Perspectives on Leisure, Social Policy, and Human Development (Paperback, New)
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Decentring Work - Critical Perspectives on Leisure, Social Policy, and Human Development (Paperback, New)
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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.
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