Free Time, Leisure and Recreation, Critical. Thinking in Mexico

Abstract

This paper presents the main characteristics of a process where the practice and experience of leisure, recreation and leisure in Mexico, are conditioned by processes of miscegenation that for more than three centuries of colonization of various indigenous cultures, have set up today including community life, which houses languages, beliefs, traditions, festivals, dances and cultural expressions that are outstanding in our daily life and current extraordinary and are part of the manifestations of free time, leisure and recreation, both personal and communitarian. In Mexican society, these have been generated critically as expounded Monsivais (1998.145), are created according to the official notion of free time, which determines the balance between work and rest periods required to recover the energy workers required for the production. Currently social concerns are multiple free time, some against the life and dignity of the different groups, and others in favor of them, and encouraging the development of human potential and reducing inequities and inequalities. This situation is the result of years of colonization and cultural and economic domination that began with the very history of Mexico. Since pre-Hispanic societies, through colonization, and until the modern times. This paper proposes a journey through this process, trying to contribute to a better understanding of what we are today.