Overview: Offers a strong theoretical basis, as well as empirical illustration and analysis based on new studies of collectors and collecting, bird-watching, backpacking, role-playing and more; interviews with .This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. ..Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct micro-processes of social protection, become informed and skilled, and achieve influence via
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