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This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children's everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children's agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies.
Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children's lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections.
By drawing attention to children's leisure - across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies.
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Utsa Mukherjee s edited book provides a refreshing and significant collection of chapters from across the globe on the intersection of childhood and leisure studies. The volume succeeds in bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship on children s leisure based on research in four continents: Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, as diverse as Finland, India, Indonesia, Philippines, and South Africa. This is an important achievement . (Heike Schänzel, International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, Vol. 8 (4), 2025)
