About the Book
This volume addresses the rich and varied thoughts, concepts, approaches and leisure practices in sixteen countries of the three continents – Australia, Asia and Africa. Per continent listed in alphabetical order in this volume information is provided on the development of leisure in: Australia and New Zealand for the continent Australia; China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Korea, The Philippines and Turkey for Asia; and, Africa (a summarizing article), Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria and South Africa for the African continent.
As far as the approach and contents are concerned, the chapters show a rich variety. What they have in common, however, is the notion that, seemingly, though named and shaped differently in respective societies and manifesting themselves in many forms and ways, concepts and practices of leisure are found all over the world, from pre-historic settlements to the present day modern mass media societies. Seemingly, being at leisure is a human species’ capacity that comes at birth and flowers in a variety of individual and societal contexts. Even where leisure is given little room and chance to come to the surface and get official recognition as being an aspect of life that deserves attention from the authorities too, it is contextual, because it is shaped by the societal circumstances, such as being colonized or being extremely work-centered. This is a welcome initiative to produce a book on the developments in leisure from a global and comparative perspective.
Contributors
• Francis Lobo
• Michael Toohey
• Grant Cushman
• Bob Gidlow
• Ma Huidi
• Ishwar Modi
• Iwan Gardono Sudjatmiko
• Irsyad Zamjani
• Adrianus Jebatu
• Gholamreza Ghaffary
• Atara Sivan
• Elie Cohen-Gewerc
• Scott North
• Erwei Dong
• Manuel Enverga
• Zerrin Arslan
• Veena Sharma
• Thibault Danteur
• Patrício V. Langa
• Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi
• Mokong Simon Mapadimeng
Contents
Introduction 1
Australia
1 Australian Leisure: From Antiquity to Modernity / Francis Lobo
2 Mapping Leisure and Life through the Ages in New Zealand / Michael Toohey, Grant Cushman and Bob Gidlow
Asia
3 The Mapping of Leisure in Chinese Cultural Tradition / Ma Huidi
4 Mapping Leisure and Life through the Ages in India / Ishwar Modi
5 The Meaning and Practice of Leisure and Recreation: An Analysis of Three Indonesian Muslim Professionals / Iwan Gardono Sudjatmiko, Irsyad Zamjani and Adrianus Jebatu
6 Mapping Leisure and Life through the Ages in Iran / Gholamreza Ghaffary
7 Mapping Leisure and Life through the Ages of Israel / Atara Sivan and Elie Cohen-Gewerc
8 Strategies of Leisure in Japan / Scott North
9 Mapping Leisure and Life in Korea / Erwei Dong
10 Mapping Leisure in the Philippines / Manuel Enverga
11 Leisure as Distinction in the Turkish Middle Class: Nursing Babies, Collecting a Trousseau, Meeting at the Malls, or Surfing? / Zerrin Arslan
Africa
12 From Precolonial, Colonial to Postcolonial: A Survey of African Leisure / Veena Sharma
13 Evolution of Leisure Patterns in Morocco: From Traditional Spiritual Pilgrimers to Contemporary Mall Wanderers / Thibault Danteur
14 On the Possibilities of Leisure Studies in Mozambique: Historical and Sociological Considerations / Patrício V. Langa
15 Transformation of Leisure in Nigeria / Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi
16 Leisure in Historical Perspective: The Case of South Africa – Past and Present / Mokong Simon Mapadimeng
About the Author / Editor
Ishwar Modi is Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences. He was also the Founder Director, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of Rajasthan and a Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur. A pioneer of leisure studies in India, he is an Honorary Life Member of the World Leisure Organization and also a Senior Fellow and Founder Member of the World Leisure Academy. He was an Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and is currently the President of its Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure. He was also the President of the Indian Sociological Society (2012–2013). He has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) of the Indian Sociological Society.
Teus J. Kamphorst was Director of the WLRA International Centre of Excellence (WICE) in the Netherlands which has produced several students of eminence in the field of leisure, tourism and environment. He was also the President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure of the International Sociological Association.
