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Article: Leisure Experience and Identity: What Difference Does Difference Make?
- Article from:
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
- Author:
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KEYWORDS: Leisure experience, ideology, identity, critical theory
The evidence of experience then becomes evidence for the fact of difference, rather than a way of explaining how difference is established, how it operates, how and in what ways it constitutes subjects who see and act in the world (Scott, 1993, p. 399-400).
Historian Joan Scott's quote provides us with insight for how we might think "differently" about leisure, identity and difference. For the past 30 years, leisure researchers have engaged in a process that gathers evidence in an attempt to identify "common" leisure experiences.. Realizing that "common" leisure experiences are mediated by ...