Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment

ISBN-13: 9781032358093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 134 str.

Opis

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism and the animation of urban environments. The authors share research that explores the meaning and making of activist practices, events of dissent, and the arts in everyday life.

Chapters were originally published as special issue of Leisure Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: leisure, activism, and the animation of the urban environment 1. A people’s history of leisure studies: where the white nationalists are 2. The right to exist: homelessness and the paradox of leisure 3. Skateboarding, gentle activism, and the animation of public space: CITE – A Celebration of Skateboard Arts and Culture at The Bentway 4. The transgressive festival imagination and the idealisation of reversal 5. Event bidding and new media activism 6. Experiences of urban cycling: emotional geographies of people and place 7. Leisure activism and engaged ethnography: heterogeneous voices and the urban palimpsest 8. Young activists in political squats. Mixing engagement and leisure 9. The emerging civil society. Governing through leisure activism in Milan Afterword – pause and breathe: a point of arrival and departure