{"title":"Postleisure: Disrupting the Disciplinary Fixity of Leisure Thinking","authors":"Tomas Pernecky","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100901","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper is a postdisciplinary exploration of leisure and the conceptual corollaries of recreation and adventure. It seeks to broaden the ontological discourse in the field and demonstrate that alternative approaches to theorising about and studying leisure, recreation, and tourism are possible – if not necessary – amid concerns and critiques stemming from posthumanism, climate change, decoloniality, and the mobilities of hope and despair. It is argued that leisure as an object of inquiry has been largely possible due to the fragmentation of being, namely the creation of dichotomies that juxtapose different states of being. By dismantling the disciplinary confines of leisure, it is shown that leisure and recreation can be reconsidered vis-à-vis empirical ontology as deeper engagement with questions of being and becoming in lived contexts and in relation to other entities and things. The suggested pathway of thinking beyond leisure might be valued particularly by emerging conceptual and ethical pioneers keen to reexamine and reimagine how we are in and become with the world.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"51 ","pages":"Article 100901"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213078025000477","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This paper is a postdisciplinary exploration of leisure and the conceptual corollaries of recreation and adventure. It seeks to broaden the ontological discourse in the field and demonstrate that alternative approaches to theorising about and studying leisure, recreation, and tourism are possible – if not necessary – amid concerns and critiques stemming from posthumanism, climate change, decoloniality, and the mobilities of hope and despair. It is argued that leisure as an object of inquiry has been largely possible due to the fragmentation of being, namely the creation of dichotomies that juxtapose different states of being. By dismantling the disciplinary confines of leisure, it is shown that leisure and recreation can be reconsidered vis-à-vis empirical ontology as deeper engagement with questions of being and becoming in lived contexts and in relation to other entities and things. The suggested pathway of thinking beyond leisure might be valued particularly by emerging conceptual and ethical pioneers keen to reexamine and reimagine how we are in and become with the world.
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Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism offers a dedicated outlet for research relevant to social sciences and natural resources. The journal publishes peer reviewed original research on all aspects of outdoor recreation planning and management, covering the entire spectrum of settings from wilderness to urban outdoor recreation opportunities. It also focuses on new products and findings in nature based tourism and park management. JORT is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary journal, articles may focus on any aspect of theory, method, or concept of outdoor recreation research, planning or management, and interdisciplinary work is especially welcome, and may be of a theoretical and/or a case study nature. Depending on the topic of investigation, articles may be positioned within one academic discipline, or draw from several disciplines in an integrative manner, with overarching relevance to social sciences and natural resources. JORT is international in scope and attracts scholars from all reaches of the world to facilitate the exchange of ideas. As such, the journal enhances understanding of scientific knowledge, empirical results, and practitioners'' needs. Therefore in JORT each article is accompanied by an executive summary, written by the editors or authors, highlighting the planning and management relevant aspects of the article.