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Theorisations of leisure in inter-war Britain

2011; Routledge; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/02614367.2011.629371

1466-4496

Robert Snape, Helen Pussard,

Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management

Abstract The National Conference on the Leisure of the People in 1919 marked the emergence of a public discourse on the nature and purpose of leisure in inter-war Britain. One strand of this discourse saw leisure to be problematic as new forms of mass and passive entertainment, the 'enforced leisure' of unemployment and the right use of leisure became areas of social concern. Perceptive critics, however, conceptualised leisure as a social sphere in which a new and better post-war society could be built through a democratic 'new' leisure and the use of leisure as a vehicle for education in citizenship. Leisure was widely documented in contemporary social surveys and became valued by local councils of social service in developing social life and community identity on new housing estates. This paper argues that a new ontology of leisure was forged between the wars as the Victorian emphasis on rational recreation and private morality was superseded by an understanding of leisure as a social product of late modernity. A Conferência Nacional sobre o Lazer Popular em 1919 marcou o surgimento de um discurso público sobre a natureza e o propósito do lazer na Grã-Bretanha no período entreguerras. Uma corrente desse discurso via o lazer como algo problemático como novas formas de entretenimento passivo e de massas; o "lazer forçado" do desemprego o a utilização correta do lazer se tornaram áreas de preocupação social. Críticos perceptivos, no entanto, conceitualizavam o lazer como uma esfera social na qual uma nova e melhor sociedade pós-guerra poderia ser construída, através de um "novo" lazer democrático e do uso do lazer como veículo de educação de cidadania. O lazer foi amplamente documentado em pesquisas sociais contemporâneas e foi valorizado por conselhos locais de serviço social no desenvolvimento da vida social e da identidade de comunidade em novas áreas residenciais. Este trabalho argumenta que uma nova ontologia do lazer foi forjada entre as guerras, com a ênfase vitoriana na recreação racional e moralidade privada sendo substituídas por um entendimento do lazer como um produto social da modernidade tardia. 在1919年的全国人类休闲会议上出现了对英国期间休闲的目的和性质的一个公众讨论。这个讨论的一个观点认为, 休闲作为大型和被动娱乐的新形式是有很多问题的。失业的"强制性"休闲和休闲的正确使用成为了社会关注的焦点。然而, 概念性批判家, 将休闲概念化成一个社会领域, 在该领域中, 一个新的和更好的战后社会将通过一个民主"新"休闲和用休闲作为教育公民的工具来使用这样的方法来实现。休闲在当代社会调查中被广泛记录, 并且成为各当地社会服务政府机构为在新住房问题上发展社会生活和社区身份时而关注。该文章争论在战争和维多利亚时期形成了一个新的休闲本体, 这使对理性娱乐和私人道德的着重点被一个将休闲作为晚期现代性的社会产品的理解而代替。 Keywords: leisurehistorytheorycitizenshipmodernityPalavras Chave: lazerhistóriateoriacidadaniamodernidade关键词: 休闲历史理论公民权现代性 Notes 1. Cecil Delisle Burns, who is quoted extensively in this article, was one of the most prolific leisure theorists of the inter-war period and published a substantial volume of work on leisure, democracy and society in addition to presenting a series of wireless broadcasts on modern leisure. Having worked in the Ministry of Reconstruction and the Joint Research Department of the Trades Union Congress and Labour Party, he became a lecturer in logic and philosophy at Birkbeck College in 1924 and moved to the London School of Economics and Political Science as lecturer in social philosophy. In 1927 he was appointed to the newly established Stevenson Lectureship in Citizenship at Glasgow University which, as the Times (1942 Times. (1942, January 23). Dr C. Delisle Burns. Labour thinker and lecturer. p. 7, col. E. [Google Scholar]) commented, allowed him to devote more time to writing. Burns promoted a democratic society in which a lived ideal of freedom in leisure combined with its sensitive and humane enjoyment would lead to shared enjoyment, greater fellowship and enhanced citizenship.