Making Modern Slavery Visible In The Gendered, Racialised Entanglement Of Leisure And Labour: Transforming Leisure Practices as Sites Of (un)freedom

As Carrington suggests in this open quotation the field of Leisure Studies has long been interested in understanding leisure in the context of relations with labour, capital and consumption from various perspectives, yet there has been a lack of theoretical counter narratives that move thinking beyond Eurocentric accounts (Blackshaw, 2010; Clarke & Critcher, 1985; Deem, 1986; Green, Hebron, & Woodward, 1990; Haworth & Veal, 2004; Parker, 1983; Rojek, 2013; Wearing, 1998). Debates have focussed how leisure and (paid and unpaid) labour were shaped through the capitalist and patriarchal production of inequalities on structural and/or individual levels. However, the ontological and epistemological foundations of such knowledge largely remained unreflexively steeped in Eurocentric concepts and histories. In response, there is a growing body of scholarship that critically questions the fictive origins of leisure and leisure theory as a privileged white, masculine, middle class orientation to knowing the world (Carrington, 2018)