LEISURE, CULTURE AND TOURISM FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

LEISURE, CULTURE AND TOURISM FOR SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

  • Subject areas

    Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

  • Team

    Gobierno Vasco A

    Brief description of research aims

    The team’s study is based on a conception of knowledge as a comprehensive experience and basic right which highlights its contribution to human development in the personal, social, cultural, economic and environmental spheres. This research area contains four priority subjects which aim to give an interdisciplinary response to the main challenges posed by leisure today: Lifelong leisure experiences and sustainable creative leisure environments.
    Leisure is a complex reality that must be approached from two broad, intersecting perspectives: the personal and experiential side, and the social and environmental side. Furthermore, other relevant issues that make up the approach of the "Leisure and Human Development" Research Group to the aforementioned areas include addressing the different actors (public sector, private sector and third sector) involved in the experience and management of the different areas of leisure (culture, tourism, sport and recreation), the implications of the practices for the different groups (children, young people, adults and the elderly or people with disabilities, among others), as well as the evaluation of the possible impacts of leisure experiences on the environment. All of the above are based on one cross-cutting aspect, social inclusion. This comprises an intervention principle as an essential tool to ensure the right to leisure and enable all citizens' participation of all citizens in successful and quality leisure experiences.
    * Team recognised by the Basque Government

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