Cultivating leisure : moving from arrest in habitual patterns to participation in conscious choice
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1997
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Miller, Catherine Mansfield
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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.