Race, class, parenting and children's leisure : children's leisurescapes and parenting cultures in middle-class British Indian families

Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure.

These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too.

However, our current understandings of these processes are race-blind and based mostly on the experiences of white middle-class families.

Drawing on an innovative study of middle-class British Indian families, this book brings children’s and parents’ voices to the forefront and bridges childhood studies, family studies and leisure studies to theorise children’s leisure from a fresh perspective. Demonstrating the salience of both race and class in shaping leisure cultures within middle-class racialised families, this is an invaluable contribution to key sociological debates around leisure, childhoods and parenting ideologies.