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dc.contributor.authorFullagar, S
dc.contributor.editorBondan Jung
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:22:59Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:22:59Z
dc.date.issued2004
dc.date.modified2009-11-18T05:31:23Z
dc.identifier.issn1607-8055
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/5431
dc.description.abstractThis article draws upon Foucaultճ (1988; 1990; 1997) later work on ethics and subjectivity to consider Socrateճ timeless question Ԩow are we to live?ծ In this way philosophy and leisure practices can be brought together to problematise and open up different ways of thinking about the nature of everyday freedom. Specifically, a case study of an Australian community garden project (Northey Street City Farm) outlines the transformative potential of leisure practices that are produced through emerging political formations and urban public spaces. Drawing upon a governmentality perspective (Dean, 1999; Rose, 1999) leisure is conceptualised as an etho-political practice of freedom that constitutes the self, and is constituted through, the complex discursive formations of advanced liberalism. As a public space Northey Street invites, and incites, participants to constitute themselves in particular ways as ethical subjects through leisure practices and power relations. This article adopts a deconstructive approach as it reconsiders certain assumptions about subjectivity and freedom that have informed leisure theor y through a focus on the parameters of ԡctivity, time, space and experienceծ An etho-politics of leisure can open up alternate ways of thinking about the particular relationships between power and freedom that shape contemporary forms of subjectivity and social engagement.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeCanada
dc.publisher.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/04419057.2004.9674344
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom14
dc.relation.ispartofpageto22
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalWorld Leisure Journal
dc.relation.ispartofvolume46
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode35
dc.titlePost-structuralist philosophies: Towards an etho-politics of everyday leisure practices
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management
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gro.date.issued2004
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gro.griffith.authorFullagar, Simone P.


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