Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics

Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics explores the rise of nationalistic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian forms of hegemony, power, and control, and the significance of leisure spaces to the emergence of bottom-up, polymorphous, and dynamic forms of community, resistance, and belonging. It critically examines the global manifestations of state-based, increasingly mainstream racist politics, and unpicks connected assemblages of power and control. The book serves to enhance understanding of populist politics and demand an end to ethnic and racial violence perpetuated through nationalistic and racialized discourses about belonging, citizenship, and social rights to the nation.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 122 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Leisure, racism, and national populist politics respond to the rise and revival of nationalistic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian forms of hegemony, power, and control. Importantly, as a collection of essays, it foregrounds and (re)politicizes debates around race and racism, recognizing the significance of leisure spaces to the emergence of bottom-up, polymorphous, and dynamic forms of community, resistance, and belonging. A range of authors present a critical and varied exploration of the global manifestations of state-based, increasingly mainstream, racist politics, while concomitantly unpicking connected assemblages of power and control. For example: how homonormativity and whiteness structure queer visibility, sexual and civic rights; how white supremacist rhetoric is transformed and differently coded through anti-Black university traditions and state pride; how Western nation-states structure Muslim identity as opposite to national identity; how leisure becomes the site of protest against larger classist and corporate ventures; and how the hegemony of neoliberal, state, and municipal planning practices, and policies about rights to spaces of the neighborhood, city, and sport, are understood, negotiated, and challenged.

The book serves to not only enhance understanding of populist politics but also to demand an end to ethnic and racial violence perpetuated through nationalistic and racialized discourses about belonging, citizenship, and social rights to the nation. This edited volume will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in the dynamics of race, gender, and nation, and the politics of belonging in the realm of leisure.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032000336