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This article aims to analyze the conceptions of leisure presented and discussed by scholars and researchers evidenced in the literature and, specifically, the formation and professional intervention of social agents that act in governmental programs, in a historical and sociological perspective, having as theoretical foundation the concepts of the sociologist German Norbert Elias, because we consider that the agents involved are personal and social experiences, which are the result of different social configurations and that the existing power relations in society influence the implementation, progress and results of public policy actions, such as Is the case of the government programs involved in the research. In this sense, we seek to answer the following questions: Who are the social agents that act in leisure programs proposed by the federal government, in what concerns their academic formation? At the present time, social agents intervene or act according to which conception of leisure: welfare, education, emancipation, criticism? (MARCELLINO, 2004, ISAYAMA, 2003, MELO, 2006). For that, we conducted interviews with the social agents who worked in two programs of the Federal Government of the city of Bauru-SP, which do not have training of personnel to work in the localities, emphasizing their initial and continued formation, as well as the professional intervention and intervention In public leisure policies, seeking an understanding of their conceptions about leisure concepts and the relationships between the reality observed in the research, idealized by the programs involved. From the collection of data and analysis, we find that the conception that the Social Agents have of leisure become common sense, insofar as they are not perceived as socio-cultural mediators acting in a public policy of leisure, besides not feeling Safe in working in places of this nature, in this sense, realize that such actions end up becoming assistentialists in the programs offered by the Government. Thus, we conclude that a formative process is needed based on studies of leisure with the individuals that make up the society and about the existing relations of power so that such actions can transform reality.

In the construction of this study, I emphasize that the professional training process should be based on principles that reflect political, intellectual, scientific and socially in struggle and tension of the recognition of diversity and cultural difference so that the action results in critical interventions. The theme of vocational training is understood through ambiguities that promote impacts on leisure practices through effective action. Thus, this article problematizes the training dimensions of the professional that acts in the leisure to reflect on the capacities necessary for the qualified and potentially educational performance. For this, we analyzed the conceptions of leisure appropriated by ten professionals who work in the school counterturn. Appropriate conceptions of leisure indicate an instrumental character. Formative processes must move towards a rethinking of praxis, the construction of intervention processes that foster and promote political formation and participation. Vocational training must be sustained on an inseparable basis of theory and practice, ie technical, operational, political, intellectual and cultural training. Just as considering the life history of the professional is relevant in the perspective of the performance.

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This article analyzes the early of sport in Manaus, which began in the late 19th century. More specifically, we focus on the history of Sport Club Amazonense, created in 1897, soon taking up the role of main association of recreation and sports in the city. In Manaus, the beginning of the organization of sports, usually associated with other leisure activities, answered demands for fun and entertainment, but also played as preferred place for sociability of elite groups, as well as vehicle for public staging of their ambitions of cosmopolitanism and social differentiation.

The objective of this work is to investigate the beginnings of the sports organization in the state of Acre, from 1909 to 1922. This period refers to the first news related to sports practices and their decline due to the rubber crisis. Acre, marked by many political and economic tensions, enters into a deep economic crisis regarding the export of rubber. This product at that time was the state's main economic activity. The process of sports organization begins to occur, albeit timidly, in the early decades of the twentieth century. At first, there is news of other Brazilian states and other countries that reveal the beginning of the movement, in that place, of ideas and vocabularies related to sports practices. The first signs of sports organizations were shooting, horse racing, cycling and walking. In 1915 the first soccer club of the region was inaugurated and later, around 1919, football won the sports and journalistic scene. Several football clubs are founded and spaces are modified for the performance of the sport.

This article aims to focus on the history of the creation of the former Agricultural School located in the city of Rio Pomba / MG, now the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, and the relationship that this institution established with sports and leisure. The sources for this research were printed newspapers, mainly the Jornal Imparcial. The period analyzed was from 1962 (founding of the school) to 1969. It was observed in the news published in the newspapers the concern with sport and leisure were already evident from the foundation of the school going through the bias of the structure and local planning. It is understood that in this area the school developed and established links with the society riopombense through sports and leisure.

This article reconstructs the first years of the Villa Nova Athletic Club, a team of workers origin officially created in the year 1908, until the early 1930's. The main objective is to analyze and problematize the initial formation of Villa Nova as a strategy of control of bodies of the workers of the Morro Velho Mine. This will allow us to know more about the phenomenon of creation of workers' clubs in Minas Gerais. To that end, the main sources were the Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro periodicals available in the Digital Library of the National Library, as well as the precious collection of the Linhares Collection, also available digitally. National politics and football as strategies for control of the workers' bodies were inseparable pillars in the initial construction of this new, pretentiously industrialized society, and the history of the early years of the Villa Nova Athletic Club could not be separated from this complex field. hegemonic disputes.

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This work aims to understand how the leisure theme is treated in Brazilian public health policies. We have analyzed the content of documents and other available information on the Health Portal - the official website of the Ministry of Health. Based on the outcomes, it is possible to assert that the concept of "active leisure" is predominant. In the documents analyzed, the proposals on leisure time were mainly related to the incentive to practice physical activities, as a way to combat sedentarism among other strategies of control of chronic non-communicable diseases. This conception of leisure seems to contradictory in comparison to the National Health Promotion Policy and the Primary Care Policy. These both documents highlight the expanded notion of health promotion, in which leisure is conceived as a social right to be guaranteed by the State. Futhermore, these policies afirm the integrality of the human condition, which presents other fundamental demands for the production of health that extrapolate the accomplishment of bodily practices/physical activities and that can also be developed in the leisure time.

In contemporary times, most of our daily actions have been thought, lived and decided under the parameter of what is more or less healthy, including leisure. Considering this context, inherent to somatic culture, we work with the idea that the limits between leisure and health are increasingly tenuous so that as obligatory as having fun is to have fun in a "healthy" way. We argue, introductory, that the imperative of healthy leisure acts both in physical body dimension - in which leisure activities and health care must be confused, keeping in tune with ideal healthy life and therefore happy - as in mental body dimension - in which entertainment must consist of numbness, distraction intended to thought denial.

The present theoretical essay aims to investigate the mimetic structure of sports leisure, in its relationship with affective health. It evokes the principle of segmentarity, an absolutely nuclear category for anthropology, as a operator concept of the interpretation elaborated. The central argument suggests that sport organizes in more stable terms, processes of social segmentation that, in everyday life, are endowed with great uncertainty. In this sense, the ludic practice of sport offers a laboratory of emotional experimentation that contributes to the formation of subjectivities accustomed to interact with conflicts and differences; therefore, subjectivities resistant to the avoidance of otherness and, consequently, to fear and malaise that mark the forms of life based on identity standardization.

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This article presents an interview with Professor Luiz Octávio de Lima Camargo. Professor at USP / EACH, Ph.D. in UER de Sciences de La Education, at Paris Descartes University, under the guidance of Sociologist Joffre Dumazedier. Professor Luiz Octávio holds a degree in Communication / Journalism from the University of São Paulo and a sociologist with productions in the area of leisure, education, tourism and sociocultural animation. One of the exponents of SESC São Paulo, Professor Luiz Octávio presents several contributions to leisure studies in Brazil. The questions were formulated in order to know the trajectory of the author and to establish dialogues with his work.

This paper aims to discuss the relationship between leisure and consumption from the entertainment industry, in order to highlight the protagonism of the subject in the dialectic that is established between the market and the cultural product. Notably, the concept of cultural industry has greatly impacted field theorists in Brazil, making the association between leisure and consumption largely understood through a bias of alienation and passivity in the dichotomy between the subject and the cultural product. Some examples are mobilized in order to propose a paradigm shift by shifting the focus from the analysis to the subjective character of the experience, in this way we seek to emphasize the importance of understanding the phenomenon of leisure as a social and historically situated experience. We conclude that the subjects' appropriation of the cultural products that ultimately determines their degree of abstraction. Key Words: Leisure. Consumption. Cultural Industry. 

The Occupational Science, created in 1980 at the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Southern California, studies human occupations with attention to their meaning and cultural context, as well as it studies the human being as an occupational being in the complexity of everyday life. The concept of leisure by Christianne Gomes, a Brazilian author, emerged in the years 2000. She identified the leisure as a human need and questions the idea of ​​ it as the opposite of work. Frequently, the concepts of leisure and occupation are initially considered different, reason for which this article raises the question: is there any proximity between the concept of leisure proposed by Gomes (2004) and the occupational perception formulated by the postulates of the traditional occupational science? Therefore, this paper, in an essay format, seeks to correlate the Gomes leisure understanding with the occupation as proposed by the traditional occupational science, observing points of interaction and contradictory aspects. A comprehension of the concept in the perspective of occupational science creates bridges to unite the two knowledge, with familiar lecture. In the end, thoughts on the two themes, give us a comprehension of leisure as an important and necessary occupation for the current human being.

Este número da Revista Brasileira de Estudos do Lazer – RBEL – é constituído por cinco artigos, decorrentes de pesquisas originais, que versam sobre a temática ao qual esse periódico é dedicado. Reconhecendo a importância das investigações sobre o lazer, esse rico material instiga reflexões sobre diferentes temas, os quais são fundamentais para que possamos compreender a realidade diversa e multifacetada que compõe esse campo de estudos.

This theoretical essay seeks to offer a possible interpretation of the historical origins of leisure in Brazilian society. Starting from the indications of Marxist thought, and unlike a-historical and phenomenological interpretations of the phenomenon, we seek to demonstrate that leisure, as a manifestation of cultural industries, is the result of an expropriation of popular entertainment. In the specific case of the investigation, it is maintained that the repression that has befallen the playful-religious universe of the black man since colonial times was not only a form of social control, but also a primitive accumulation necessary for the further transformation of the free time on a commodity. Which, certainly, in this society of a slave nature, has particularized the process in racial terms. For this, the investigation uses bibliographic, documentary and literary sources. Keywoords: Leisure, Slavery, Racism

The purpose of this essay is to use the perspective of knowledge of experience as an epistemological possibility to think about the relationship between human beings and the natural world through the enjoyment of cultural manifestations. In this sense, the debate is established at the intersection between the field of Leisure, the discussions about culture and nature and the concept of experience coined by Jorge Larrosa Bondía. It is concluded that leisure in nature can be a privileged space for the knowledge of the experience to occur, this knowledge mediated by leisure could contribute to the re-elaboration of values in society and mainly for the adoption of a new attitude towards the natural world.

This theorical essay proposes a reflection about the exchanges involved in tourist leisure practices. Based on an interpretive and critical examination of some classic sociological authors who dialogue with social exchanges, the tourist phenomenon is debated from the interpersonal relationships, the gift theory and the expected and longed-for hospitality rules, derived from a symbolic economy recognized by the habitus of those involved. Considering the capitalist scene, where the enjoyment of time dedicated to leisure is mainly commercialized and accessible only to a part of the population, the economically privileged, the exchanges in the relations between tourists and residents is discussed, currently showing less the precepts of donations and more the idea of social distinction. Considering that tourism is a form of leisure and, therefore, a constitutional right in Brazil, which should be widely accessible, we turn to discussions about the right to the city as an ideal that can be triggered by envisioning more democratic forms of access to the exchanges/tourist experiences and the participatory management of tourism.

We propose a reflection on the presence (or not) of leisure on the political agenda of three social movements that defend women's rights. We start from the constitutional principle that highlights leisure among social rights and provides for equality between men and women. The purpose of this text was to understand if these social movements address the theme of leisure in their agendas and when that happens, what is the approach given to the social right to leisure. We analyzed the statutes, meeting reports, letters (of principles, of claim, of support, of repudiation), notes, electronic media, social networks and specific actions promoted by each of the three social movements of women. Among demands for health, education, work, spaces of power, security, reproductive rights, equality, respect, and so many others, there were few mentions of the right to leisure. We emphasize the importance of experiences that refer to leisure in the context of actions carried out by social movements. We identified that leisure experiences face different barriers to become an active desire to be claimed.