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

Published Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (183 p.) Series Sociology of Children and Families Ser Sociology of Children and Families Ser 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 -- 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 -- 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 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 Notes Description based upon print version of record Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Play -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Recreation -- Social aspects -- Great Britain Child rearing -- Great Britain East Indians -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs Middle class families -- Great Britain SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity. Child rearing East Indians -- Social life and customs Middle class families Play -- Social aspects Recreation -- Social aspects Great Britain Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 9781529219531 1529219531 1529219523 9781529219524

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