What is it about?
Leisure is a life-politic that hides: dominant lifestyles, harmful environmental engagement, and political regimes. But in the midst of pandemic, there are two enemies, at the mirco- and macrolevel to the life of a person via leisure that are becoming exposed at this time: 1) Person to Person; and, 2) The State to Person.
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Why is it important?
To those of us who have been consistently critical of leisure, we have mapped our critique of leisure onto discussions of leisure as a concept, as a tool, or as a social construct in society that has had serious implications on the gendered, the racialized, and the classed as disposable.
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With the coronavirus pandemic, it reveals a need to depart from a happiness and titillation orientation of leisure, and more a collective life-giving requisite in our research, instruction, and advocacy. For with COVID- 19, leisure (as it is predominantly conceived) is the enemy.
Rasul Mowatt
North Carolina State University
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This page is a summary of: A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Leisure with the Enemy Under COVID-19, Leisure Sciences, June 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2020.1773981.
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