Abstract
Similar to any paradigm of thought, humanism has its limitations and should be met with suspicion (St. Pierre, Int J Qual Stud Educ 13(5):477–515, 2000). Scholars in our field have already taken up this call to question humanism by showing its limits and making space for more critical humanist theories (Parry et al., Leisure Sci 35(1):81–87, 2013). However, such critiques tend to remain with/in critical theory, feminism(s), and critical race theories, rather than stepping outside of humanism into post* theories such as post-structuralism, queer theory, and post-humanism. Recognizing the usefulness of engaging in a pluralism of theories to understand, critique, and deconstruct leisure phenomena, this chapter encourages scholars to consider stepping outside of humanism to show the strength of also employing post* theories in our theorizing and qualitative leisure research.
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Notes
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Post-structuralism is a complex, rhizomatic, multiple, and constantly fluid terrain of thought. Because of this complexity, it is difficult to thoroughly capture nuances in a book chapter, particularly details around issues of ontology and shifts towards post-humanism (Braidotti 2013). Due to this limitation, this chapter includes multiple references in order to provide a starting point for subversive scholars who wish to “read more” into the thinking(s) of such theorists as Foucault, Derrida, Butler, Sedgwick, Halberstam, Bhabha, Said, Spivak, Deleuze Guattari, and so on. “While some of us who have escaped our cages may start looking for ways back into the zoo, others may try to rebuild a sanctuary in the wild, and a few fugitive types will actually insist on staying lost” and will keep reading (Halberstam 2011, p. 25).
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As Butler (1992, p. 15) wrote, “I place them in quotation marks to show that they are under contest, up for grabs, to initiate the contest, to question their traditional deployment, and call for some other. The effect of the quotation marks is to denaturalize the terms, to designate these signs as sites of political debate.”
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Berbary, L.A. (2017). Thinking Through Post-structuralism in Leisure Studies: A Detour Around “Proper” Humanist Knowledges. In: Spracklen, K., Lashua, B., Sharpe, E., Swain, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5_41
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