Leisure

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping. Situationist International proposes that leisure does not evolve from free time, and free-time is an illusory concept that is rarely fully "free"; economic and social forces appropriate free time from the individual and sell it back to them as the commodity known as "leisure". Certainly most people's leisure activities are not a completely free choice and may be constrained by social …

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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English

Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …

promise of rapid travel to faraway destinations for leisure or important business. The latter delivered a


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

evening. Our to- do list was long with no plans for leisure. This was no holiday; there was too much to do until much later in life, when he finally had some leisure time, to pursue these hobbies. He often hid away


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

non-Spanish-speaking contexts. I remember seeing debonair, leisure-suited, ’70s movie stars using it while offering


CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 17 October 2024 English

This document summarizes the sources, definitions, strengths and limitations of the data available.

for themselves, being productive and enjoying leisure activities. OTs contribute to the productivity


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Through detailed analyses of nineteenth-century spirit photography, horror films, ghost-hunting reality television, and the viral internet phenomenon “Slender Man,” Poetics of the Paranormal shows how the figure of the ghost …

and economic control over peri- ods of work and leisure; it obscures the ceaselessly changing plurality


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English

Canadian municipalities oversee the country’s most urgent policy areas, yet the constitutional authority of cities to manage their increasing obligations has not kept pace. This volume considers how policy, law, …

that provide space for their work, living, and leisure all at once. Canada’s large and medium-sized cities


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English

Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …

Sandwell 7 Permanent Weekend Nature, Leisure, and Rural Gentrification John Michels science as a “magic wand” (69) and bring “new-found leisure” (70) and cures for “plague and pestilence” (72)


FNIGC: First Nations Information Governance Centre · 24 September 2024 English

of adults who did 42% not use cannabis… had of adults who participated used cannabis in Traditional 43% occasionally… physical of adults who used activities 46% cannabis daily… within of …

community expert spoke about the use of cannabis for leisure, or as an emotional numbing substance, and the


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English

All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …

pests and diseases, etc. Cultural services include leisure and entertainment, cultural uses, employment income and P by oysters); Province) Cultural services (leisure and entertainment, scientific research services) control); proliferation and release Cultural services (leisure and entertainment, area scientific research services) regulation); cucumber, shrimp, Cultural services (leisure and entertainment, various fish cultural purposes scenery, participation in marine entertainment and leisure sports and other non-consumptive resource values


ASC: Alzheimer Society of Canada · 19 September 2024 English

Thus, for those at an increased risk of developing dementia, delaying its onset may also improve quality of life and reduce the personal, family and societal costs of care.11 Included …

person they care for to medical appointments, leisure activities and social events (77.3% of respondents


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