Batchelor, S. , Fraser, A. , Whittaker, L. and Li, L. (2020) Precarious leisure: (re)imagining youth, transitions and temporality. Journal of Youth Studies, 23(1), pp. 93-108. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1710483)
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Abstract
The precarity of young people’s transitions to work has been a longstanding focus in youth studies. As Furlong and others have demonstrated, processes of social, political and economic restructuring have led to a pronounced instability for young people entering the labour market. While the notion of labour market precarity has gained attention, the ‘contamination’ of precarity into other spheres of life such as leisure has been less developed. This article seeks to extend these debates through interrogation of the concept of ‘leisure precarity’. Drawing on a qualitative study of youth leisure in Glasgow, it argues that temporal anxieties have reframed young people’s experiences and understandings of leisure such that young people have come to fear ‘empty’ or unproductive time. The pressures of juggling work and study, or looking for work, meant that most participants in our research had limited time free for leisure, and temporal rhythms became fragmented between past, present and future. The paper argues that these multiple and contradictory leisure dispositions reveal new forms of individualisation and uncertainty, as well as traditional patterns of inequality, thereby bringing youth transitions into dialogue with the study of precarity in the twenty-first century.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Fraser, Professor Alistair and Batchelor, Dr Susan |
| Authors: | Batchelor, S., Fraser, A., Whittaker, L., and Li, L. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Journal of Youth Studies |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| ISSN: | 1367-6261 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1469-9680 |
| Published Online: | 23 January 2020 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2020 The Authors |
| First Published: | First published in Journal of Youth Studies 23(1):93-108 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons Licence |
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