Leisure as a human right special edition introduction

Leisure as an agent of social change: special issue introduction

“…Having mounted a case for leisure as a human right in 2015 (McGrath, Young and Adams 2017), the organizers of the 13th Biennial (2017) Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) Conference in Hobart, Tasmania asked delegates to take this notion a step further by reviewing leisure as a social change agent at individual, community and societal levels. A key focus was the capacity of leisure to improve the human condition (especially in the context of a rapidly changing world), and the role leisure plays in challenging social norms, biases, discrimination and stereotypes, thus enabling social justice outcomes.…”