This bibliography is updated from time to time. It is published on the WLO website (www.worldleisure.org) as supporting information for the WLO Charter for Leisure. Suggestions for additions to the bibliography would be welcome (via WLO Secretariat: secretariat@worldleisure.org) Updated August, 2021

Contents

  1. Document sources
  2. Selected general texts on human rights
  3. Leisure
  4. Children/play
  5. Environment/heritage
  6. Sport
  7. The arts/culture
  8. Tourism
  9. Women
  10. People with disabilities
  11. The aged
  12. Animal rights

Document sources

United Nations treaties etc: www.un.org/rights

Ishay, M. R. (Ed.). (1997). The Human Rights Reader. New York, NY: Routledge.

Selected general texts on human rights

Bauer, J.R., & Bell, D.A. (Eds.). The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chapman, A., & Russell, S. (Eds) (2002). Core obligations: Building a framework for economic, social and cultural rights. Antwerp: Intersentia.

Cranston, M. (1983). Are there any human rights? Daedalus, 112(4), 1-17.

Donnelly, J. (2013). Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, 3rd Edn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Dugard, J., Porter, B., Ikawa, D., & Chenwi, L. (Eds) (2020). Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.

Fukuda-Parr, S., Lawson-Remer, T., and Randolph, S. (2015). Fulfilling Social and Economic Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Glendon, M.A. (2002). A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New York: Random House.

Ignatieff, M. (2001). Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Jabine, T.B., & Claude, R.P. (Eds) (1992). Human rights and statistics: Getting the record straight. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Landman, T., & Carvalho, E. (2010). Measuring human rights. London: Routledge.

Nickel, J.W. (2007). Making Sense of Human Rights. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Robertson, R.E. (1994). Measuring state compliance with the obligation to devote the ‘maximum available resources’ to realizing economic, social, and cultural rights. Human Rights Quarterly, 16(3), 693-714.

Turner, B.S. (1993). Outline of a theory of human rights. Sociology, 27(3), 489-512.

Waldron, J. (Ed.) (1987). Nonsense Upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the rights of man. London: Routledge Revivals.

Leisure

Caudwell, J., and McGee, D. (2018). Editorial: From promotion to protection: human rights and events, leisure and sport. Leisure Studies, 37(1), 1-10.

McGrath, R., Young, J., and Adams, C. (2017). Leisure as a human right: special edition introduction. Annals of Leisure Research, 20(3), 314-316.

Pegg, S., & Compton, D.M. (2003). Creating opportunities and ensuring access to leisure and recreation services though inclusion in the global community. Leisure/Loisir, 28(1-2), 5-26,

Richards, D.L., & Carbonetti, B.C. (2013). Worth what we decide: a defense of the right to leisure. International Journal of Human Rights, 17(3), 329-49.

Risse, M. (2009). A right to work? A right to leisure? Labor rights as human rights. Law & Ethics of Human Rights, 3(1), 1-39.

Rojek, C. (2005). P2P leisure exchange: net banditry and the policing of intellectual property. Leisure Studies, 24(4), 357-369.

Rojek, C. (2005). Leisure Theory. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (critical discussion of the 2000 WLO Charter for Leisure on pp. 197-199).

Rose, J.L. (2016). Free Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Sivan, A., & Veal, A.J. (2021). Leisure and human rights: the World Leisure Organisation Charter for Leisure: Past, present and future. World Leisure Journal. DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2021.1918755.

Sylvester, C. (1992). Therapeutic recreation and the right to leisure. Therapeutic Recreation Journal, 26(2), 9-20.

Veal, A.J. (2021). Human Rights and Citizenship Rights for Leisure, Sport, Tourism, Culture and Events. Wallingford, UK: CABI. Online publication. A copy of this can be freely downloaded using the link: here.

Veal, A.J. (2021). International assessment of the right to leisure time. World Leisure Journal. DOI: 10.1080/16078055.2021.1918756.

*Leisure-related textbooks with human rights contents: See ‘Education’ page.

Children/play

Brackenridge, C. (2014). Women and children first? Child abuse and child protection in sport. In R. Giulianotti & D. McArdle (Eds), Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights (pp. 30-45). London: Routledge.

Brackenridge, C.H., Rhind, D., & Palmer, S. (2014). Locating and mitigating risks to children associated with major sporting events. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 7(3), 237-250.

Donnelly, P., & Petherick, L. (2006). Workers’ playtime? Child labour at the extremes of the sporting spectrum. In R. Giulianotti and D. McArdle (Eds), Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights (pp. 9-29), London: Routledge.

Simpson, B. (2005). Cities as playgrounds: active leisure for children as a human right. In J. Caudwell and P. Bramham (Eds), Sport, Active Leisure and Youth Cultures (pp. 3-23). Eastbourne, UK: Leisure Studies Association.

Environment/heritage

Campion, R., & Stephenson, J. (2014). Recreation on private property: Landowner attitudes towards Allemanstrart. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 6(1), 52-65.

Curry, N. (2002). Access rights for outdoor recreation in New Zealand: Some lessons for open country in England and Wales. Journal of Environmental Management, 64(4), 423–35.

Hunter, R. (1896/2011). The Preservation of Open Spaces and of Footpaths and Other Rights of Way. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kellert, S.R. (2012). Birthright: People and nature in the modern world. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press.

McNeish, W., & Oliver, S. (2017). Contracting the right to roam. In K. Spracklen, B. Lashua, E. Sharpe, and S. Swain (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (pp. 289-307). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Nash, R.F. (1989). The Rights of Nature: A history of environmental ethics. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Ravenscroft, N., & Gilchrist, P. (2011). Outdoor recreation and the environment. In P. Bramham & S. Wragg (Eds), The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure (pp. 45-62). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Taylor, L., & Whalley, B. (2019). ‘Real change comes from below!’ Walking and singing about places that matter: the formation of the Commoners Choir. Leisure Studies, 38(1), 58-73.

Sport

Adams, A., & Piekarz, M. (2015). Sport events and human rights: positive promotion or negative erosion? Journal of Policy Research in Tourism. Leisure and Events, 7(3), 220-236.

Booth, D. (2003). Hitting apartheid for six? The politics of the South African sports boycott. Journal of Contemporary History, 38(3), 477-93.

Darcy, S. &  Dowse, L. (2013). In search of a level playing field – the constraints and benefits of sport participation for people with intellectual disability. Disability and Society, 28(3), 393-407.

David, P. (2005). Human Rights in Youth Sport. London: Routledge.

Donnelly, P. (2008). Sport and human rights. Sport in Society,11(4), 381-94.

Giulianotti, R., & McArdle, D. (Eds) (2006). Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights. London: Routledge.

Jarvie, G. (2006). Sport, human rights and poverty. Chapter 18 of Sport, Culture and Society: An introduction (pp.363-380). London: Routledge..

Kidd, B., & Donnelly, P. (2000). Human rights in sports. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 35(2), 131-48.

McGillivray, D., Edwards, M.B., Brittain, I., Bocarro. J., & Koenigstorfer, J. (2018). A conceptual model and research agenda for bidding, planning and delivering major sport events that lever human rights, Leisure Studies. 38(2), 175-190.

Rowe, D. (2006). Watching brief: Cultural citizenship and viewing rights. In R. Giulianotti & D. McArdle (Eds), Sport, Civil Liberties and Human Rights (pp. 93-110). London: Routledge.

Taylor, T. (Ed.) (1999). How you Play the Game. Papers from the First International Conference on Sports and Human Rights. Sydney: University of Technology Sydney.

The arts/culture

Carter, J., & Orange, J. (2012). Contentious terrain: defining a human rights museology. Museum Management and Curatorship, 27(2), 111-27.

Darcy, S., & Taylor, T. (2009). Disability citizenship: an Australian human rights analysis of the cultural industries. Leisure Studies, 28(4), 419-41.

Hansen, S.A. (2002). The right to take part in cultural life. In A. Chapman & S. Russell (eds), Core Obligations: Building a framework for economic, social and cultural rights. Intersentia, Antwerp, pp. 279–303.

Hewison, R., & Holden, J. (2004). The Right to Art: Making aspirations reality. London: Demos.

Horne, D. (1986). The Public Culture. London: Pluto, (see pp. 232-237, ‘A declaration of cultural rights’).

Ivey, B. (2008). Arts Inc.: How greed and neglect have destroyed our cultural rights. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Shaheed, F. (2013). The Right to Freedom of Artistic Expression and Creativity: Report of the Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights, Doc. A/HRC/23/24. New York: UN General Assembly.

Stamatopoulou, E.  (2004). Why cultural rights now? New York: Carnegie Council, available at: www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/20040923b/index.html, (accessed, April 2015).

Tourism

Bianchi, R.V., & Stephenson, M.L. (2014). Tourism and Citizenship: Rights, freedoms and responsibilities in the global order. London: Routledge.

Cole, S., & Eriksson, J. (2010). Tourism and human rights. In S. Cole & N.Morgan (Eds),  Tourism and inequality (pp. 107-25). Wallingford, UK: CABI

George, B.P., & Varghese, V. (2007). Human rights in tourism: conceptualization and stakeholder perspectives. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 12(2), 40-48.

Hall, C.M. (Ed.) (2007). Pro-poor Tourism: Who benefits? Bristol: Channel View.

Haulot, A. (1981). Social tourism: current dimensions and future developments. International Journal of Tourism Management, 2(2), 207-212.

Lovelock, B., & Lovelock, K.M. (2013) The Ethics of Tourism: Critical and applied perspectives. London: Routledge (Chapter 4: ‘Human rights’, pp. 63-94).

McCabe, S. (2009). Who needs a holiday? Evaluating social tourism. Annals of Tourism Research 36(4), 667–688.

McCabe, S., and Diekmann, A. (2015). The rights to tourism: reflections on social tourism and human rights. Tourism Recreation Research, 40(2), 194-204.

McCabe, S., Minnaert, L., & Diekman, A. (2012). Social Tourism in Europe: Theory and practice. Bristol: Channel View.

Ray, R., & Schmitt, J. (2008). The right to vacation: an international perspective. International Journal of Health Services, 38(1), 21–45.

Richards, G. (1998). Time for a holiday? Social rights and international tourism consumption. Time and Society, 7(1), 145-60.

Tourism Concern (2009). Putting Tourism to Rights: A challenge to human rights abuses in the tourism industry. London: tourism Concern.

UN World Tourism Organization (1985). Tourism Bill of Rights and Tourist Code. Madrid: UNWTO.

Women

Deem, R. (1985). Politics of women’s leisure. Sociological Review, 33(1, suppl.), 210-228.

Henderson, K.A., & Bialeschki, M.D. (1991). A sense of entitlement to leisure as constraint and empowerment for women. Leisure Sciences, 13(1), 51-65.

International Working Group on Women & Sport (IWGWS) (2014). Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration, 2014, Gaborone, Botswana: IWGWS.

Reeves, R.B. (1994). Women’s right to leisure: A feminist perspective. Humanity and Society, 18(4), 47-54.

People with disabilities

Darcy, S. (1999). Access all areas? How the leisure industry provides for people with disabilities. Australian Leisure Management, 15, 68-70.

Darcy, S. & Dowse, L. (2013). In search of a level playing field – the constraints and benefits of sport participation for people with intellectual disability. Disability and Society, 28(3), 393-407.

Darcy, S., & Taylor, T. (2009). Disability citizenship: an Australian human rights analysis of the cultural industries. Leisure Studies, 28(4), 419-441.

Roberts, A., Greenhill, B., Talbot, A., & Cuzak. M. (2011). Standing up for my human rights: A groups journey beyond consultation towards co-production. British Journal of Learning Disabilities 40(4), 292–301.

Singleton, J., & Darcy, S. (2013).‘Cultural life’, disability, inclusion and citizenship: moving beyond leisure in isolation. Annals of Leisure Research, 16(3), 183-192.

 

The aged

Karev, I., & Doron, I. (2017). The human right to leisure in old age: Reinforcement of the rights of an aging population. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 29(3), 276-295.

Animal rights

Carr, N., & Young, J. (Eds) (2018a). Domestic Animals, Humans, and Leisure: Rights, welfare, and wellbeing. London: Routledge.

Carr, N., & Young, J. (Eds) (2018b). Wild Animals and Leisure: Rights and wellbeing. London: Routledge.

Yerbury, R., Boyd, W., Lloyd, D., & Brooks, A. (2017). Right to leisure? Refocusing on the dolphin. Annals of Leisure Research, 20(3), 368-385.