Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Miller, Catherine Mansfield

Titel

Cultivating leisure: Moving from arrest in habitual patterns to participation in conscious choice

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This inquiry begins with a focus on the experience of constrained leisure. Using a critical, feminist lens the 're-search' evolves into an exploration of everyday experiences of constraint in three particular arenas and the relationship of these experiences to the social forces that shape them. These arenas are; epistemology and research, the meaning and practice of leisure and participation in my health. The autobiographical narrative in this thesis illustrates a shift in awareness and understanding that has enabled me to move within these arenas from arrest in habitual patterns of constraint to participation in conscious choice. Important to this process has been the development of a meaningful understanding of leisure and the realization that this inquiry is an embodiment of leisure; the development of awareness and understanding in the pausing to question and critically reflect. This study illustrates possibilities of human agency within leisure.