Contribution to Book
Transformative Leisure and Play: Bringing Forth Our Reason for Being
Positive Sociology of Leisure: Contemporary Perspectives on Sociology of Leisure
(2020)
Abstract
This chapter brings forward the notion of transformation as an overarching concept within a positive sociology of leisure. In particular, is reimagining the underlying purpose of recreation and recreational therapy as catalysts of transformative experience. This chapter suggests that our industries are poised to address fundamental, yet unmet needs of our communities and ourselves. Specifically, this aim defines transformative play and leisure, introduces an empirically based framework of transformation, and discusses three practices occurring during leisure that support transformation. This chapter implores that we entertain yet again, the origins of our raison d’etre, our reason for being, by recognizing that leisure and play have the capacity to transform the player and our responsibility to meet growing societal demands towards that end.
Keywords
- transformation,
- transformation economy,
- recreational therapy,
- leisure,
- play,
- integration
Disciplines
Publication Date
April, 2020
Editor
Shintaro Kono, Anju Beniwal, Priyanka Sharma, and Karl Spracklen
Publisher
Palgrave
Citation Information
Susan L. Ross, Y. Iwasaki, P. Heintzman and J. Baur. "Transformative Leisure and Play: Bringing Forth Our Reason for Being" Positive Sociology of Leisure: Contemporary Perspectives on Sociology of Leisure (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/susan_ross/23/