Research Catalog

Title

Decentring work : critical perspectives on leisure, social policy, and human development / editors: Heather Mair, Susan M. Arai, and Donald G. Reid.

Publication

Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Arai, Susan M., 1968-
• Mair, Heather.
• Reid, Donald G.

Description

vi, 276 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--pub. desc.

Subject

• Canada > Social policy
• Leisure > Social aspects > Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in electronic formats.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Leisure and social policy / Don Dawson -- Addressing Inadequate leisure access policies through citizen engagement / Janna Taylor and Wendy Frisby -- Removing the scar : social solidarity and leisure policy / Donald G. Reid, B. Leigh Golden, and Leah Katerberg -- Improving the lives of persons with dementia and their families through enhanced social policy, leisure policy, and practice / Sherry L. Dupuis -- Poverty and leisure as social determinants of health : the politics of oppression and transformation in social policy / Susan M. Arai and Rishia Burke -- Multiculturalism and leisure policy : enhancing the delivery of leisure services and supports for immigrants and minority Canadians / Susan Tirone -- Leisure and social development in the context of women who offend / Darla Fortune, Alison Pedlar, and Felice Yuen -- Restoring Our collective obligation : exploring opportunities for addressing homelessness and social housing / Heather Mair and Dawn Trussell -- Hold gently people who create space on the margins : urban Aboriginal-Canadian Young people and hip-hop rhythms of leisures / Karen M. Fox and Brett D. Lashua -- Exercising our leisure imagination / Heather Mair, Donald G. Reid, and Susan M. Arai

ISBN

• 9781552385005 (pbk.)
• 1552385000 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011410058

OCLC

676689902

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library