Race, class, parenting and children's leisure : children's leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle-class British Indian families / Utsa Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukherjee, Utsa, author.

Series:

Sociology of children and families series.

Sociology of children and families

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Play.

Recreation--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Recreation.

Leisure--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Leisure.

Child rearing--Great Britain.

Child rearing.

East Indians--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

East Indians.

Middle class families--Great Britain.

Middle class families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol,UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.

Summary:

School-age children's everyday lives are changing as they are immersed in digital leisure and organised activities. However, our current understandings of these transitions are race-blind. Presenting the first study of middle-class British Indian families, this book reveals the salience of race and class in shaping parenting cultures and children.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half-title

Series information

Race, Class Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-class British Indian Families

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of figures and table

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Why study children's leisure?

Childhood and parenthoods at the intersection of race and class

Middle-class Indians in the UK

Researching middle-class British Indian children's leisure

The place and the people

The study

My own identities in the field

Tour of the book

2 Critical Sociology of Children's Leisure: a framework

Sociology of childhood: debates and direction

Adult-centrism and leisure theory: going beyond an add-children-and-stir model

Genres of children's everyday leisure: a conceptual map

Structured or organised leisure

Family leisure

Casual leisure

Operationalising a critical sociology of middle-class British Indian children's leisure

3 Concerted Cultivation the Indian Way?: organised leisure and racial parenting strategy

Making up a 'skilled' child through leisure

Children's ethnic and racial socialisation through organised leisure

Transmission of ethnic cultural capital through organised leisure

(Anti)Racism and organised leisure

Rethinking concerted cultivation

4 The Fun, the Boring and the Racist Name Calling: how children make sense of their leisure geographies

Negotiating leisure choices with parents

Fun and boring: the idioms of leisure

'Indians smell like poo': children navigating peer racism in leisure spaces

A child-centred sociology of children's leisure experiences

5 Negotiated Temporalities: leisure, time-use and everyday life

Time crunch and busyness: making family leisure possible

Navigating 'screen-time' and screen-based leisure

'Alone time' and the 'being and becoming' of children

Remapping the timescapes of leisure

6 Relating, Place-Making and the Cultural Politics of Leisuring

Leisuring as relating: social relationships as relationships of play

Leisuring as place-making in the diaspora

Thinking of cultural politics: leisure beyond an individualistic lens

7 Concluding Thoughts

Middle-class parenting and race

Race, class and cultural capital

The politics of children's leisure

Relational dynamics of child agency

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Mukherjee, Utsa Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure

ISBN:

9781529219548

152921954X

9781529219524

1529219523

9781529219531

1529219531

OCLC:

1369648049