Utsa Mukherjee is a Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London.

¿1. Introduction: When Leisure Studies met Childhood Studies,  Utsa Mukherjee.- Part I Children's Rights and Social Justice.- 2. Whose leisure is it anyway? The challenges of providing children's leisure from a cross-cultural playwork perspective, Shelly Newstead and  Qian Zheng.-  3.  Play for All: Fostering Inclusive Play Spaces in India,  Rajashree Srinivasan.-  4. "Social Justice" despite Sickness: Play and Leisure for Children and Young People in Hospital, Jessika Boles and Joan Turner .- Part II Social Identities and Cultural Politics.- 5: Hobby Horses: A Hobby, Sport or Pure Play? A Contemporary Plaything as Part of Girlhood Leisure Activities in Finland.-  6.Policing Pastime: Child Audiences, Cinemas and the Segregation of Leisure in South Africa.- Part III Space, Place and Meaning-Making.- 7: Children's Participation and Leisure Possibilities in an Institutionalized Leisure Arena: The Case of Swedish School-Age Educare Centres.- 8. Children's Meanings of Third Places for Leisure in Jakarta's Low-Income Neighbourhoods .- 9. Negotiating Informalities of Leisure: Leisure Among Slum-Dwelling Amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic in the Philippines.- 10. Playing, Working, and Learning in Flux: Perspectives from African Post-forager Childhoods.-  

This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children¿s everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around children¿s agency, rights, child-adult relations, and social change. It is positioned to inaugurate a new frontier of research within leisure studies.
Leisure theory has historically been adult-centric and based in the global north, and consequently, children¿s lived experiences of leisure have remained marginal to theory-building exercises within leisure studies since its inception. As the call for decolonizing leisure studies grows, this book champions a cross-cultural and social justice agenda that does not privilege global north childhoods but acknowledges the multiplicity of lived childhoods across the globe and their inter-connections.
By drawing attention to children¿s leisure ¿ across multiple genres such as organized leisure, sports, play, and digital leisure among others, this edited volume drives a new wave of research that speaks simultaneously to leisure studies and childhood studies and thereby advances the intellectual remit of global leisure studies.