The Meaning of Leisure - Definitions and Practices among Migrant and Non-Migrant Women in an Urban Space

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting-Mannheim, Germany. Vania Sandoval focuses on how social structure and individual choices relate to each other in the local context. Initially, the book considers the women as a relatively homogenous group, analyzing how they conceive, organize and experience their leisure in a similar manner with individual nuances. It then proceeds to highlight some of the processes that lead, in this particular case, to migration-based differences in their leisure practices. 

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Leisure: Between Structure and Agency .- 3. Context of the Study .- 4. Meaning of Leisure for Women in Mannheim.- 5. Leisure Planning and Execution.- 6. Women and Mannheim as Leisure Space.- 7. Migration background and Leisure.- 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Vania L. Sandoval earned her PhD in social and cultural anthropology at the Ruprecht—Karl University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her research interests include emigration to Europe and cultural identity, the anthropology of food and eating, and leisure and lifestyle studies.

Summary

This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting—Mannheim, Germany. Vania Sandoval focuses on how social structure and individual choices relate to each other in the local context. Initially, the book considers the women as a relatively homogenous group, analyzing how they conceive, organize and experience their leisure in a similar manner with individual nuances. It then proceeds to highlight some of the processes that lead, in this particular case, to migration-based differences in their leisure practices. 

Product details

• Authors: Vania L Sandoval, Vania L. Sandoval
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9783319597515
• ISBN: 978-3-31-959751-5
• No. of pages: 218
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 218 p. 14 illus. in color.
• Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era; Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Migration, B, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Soziologie: Sport und Freizeit, Bevölkerung und Migrationsgeographie, Ethnology, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Social & cultural anthropology, Sociology: sport & leisure, Ethnography, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social Anthropology, Emigration and immigration, Sport Sociology, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports—Sociological aspects, Sociocultural Anthropology, Human Migration, Population and migration geography