Leisure and Culture

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Boş Zaman Değerlendirme Farkındalıkları: İzmir Örneği

“…Boş zaman değerlendirme anlayışı ve tutumları ile kültür arasındaki bağlantı 90'lı yıllardan beri araştırmacıların (Chick 2009;Chick & Dong 2005;Gürbüz & Henderson 2014;Rojek, 2000;Walker, Jackson, & Deng 2007;Veal 2001) ilgi alanı haline gelmiştir. Kültür, en genel anlamıyla "öğrenilmiş davranışların bir bütün olarak nesilden nesile aktarılması veya paylaşılan semboller ve anlamlar" olarak tanımlanmaktadır (Kağıtçıbaşı 2010: 36).…”

Trespassing in (Un)Familiar Territory: Knowing ‘the Other’ in Ethnographic Research

“…What this means is that when it comes to investigating forms of leisure, particularly those that are labelled by society as 'deviant' or 'abnormal', different rules often matter (Rojek 2000). Hence, irrespective of whether some leisure might seem dreadful, upsetting and even morally repugnant, it should be remembered that it is leisure all the same (Blackshaw 2010).…”

Pagans and Satan and Goths, oh my: dark leisure as communicative agency and communal identity on the fringes of the modern Goth scene

“…Individuals in the Goth scene deliberately seek out Goth as a place to express themselves through dark leisure: something out-of-theordinary, something that plays with mainstream fears of unbridled sexuality, the carnivalesque, and the dark spiritualities of anti-Christian paganism and elitist Satanism (cf. Rojek, 2000, on the thrill of being a 'fan' of mass murderers). Those Goths who were in the crowd for Faith and the Muse, for example, use their choice of the band and the pagan themes running through their albums as a representation of their feminism, or environmentalism.…”