Conclusions

Abstract

In this conclusion I provide a synthesis of the key findings of the rest of the book and return to the problems raised in the first third of it to show that the seemingly inevitable relationship between modern leisure and whiteness (and whiteness and intersections of class and gender) is not a necessary feature of modern life, only a contingent one. First, it is necessary to return to the question of whether the world has changed and become something postmodern, something where multiculturalism has triumphed and people readily accept difference, diversity and hybridity.