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Problemitizing consumption, community, and leisure: Some thoughts on moving beyond essentialist thinking

Abstract Leisure, community and consumption share a common intellectual standing in leisure studies. There has been a tendency of many scholars to imbue these categories of social life with fundamental, pre‐existing characteristics and thus to see them as having something of an a priori essence. The essentialist posture in this regard finds its most common expression as absolute, normative valuations about the goodness and badness and the rightness or wrongness of leisure, community and consumption. This paper unpacks these notions, strips them of their essentialist garb, and makes them useful for research and analysis.