Childhood studies and leisure studies: a call for active participation and research with children

Abstract

The reviewed book offers an innovative study of British Indian middle-class families, drawing upon the voices of children and parents, and establishing an original dialogue between childhood studies, family studies, and leisure studies to theorize children's leisure from a fresh perspective. The great originality of the work is concentrated in the approach to these issues also from the point of view of children. To understand them only as followers of their parents' instructions is to deny their agency. In this sense, the book, apart from being a quality work in itself, serves as an invitation to reconsider academic productions in the field of education and physical education when it comes to leisure. It prompts a reevaluation of existing academic literature and invites authors to critically examine their approaches to studying leisure within the context of education and physical education.