공공의 여가공간을 통한 여가통치성 수행

Abstract

In contemporary urban society, the number of leisure spaces created by the public is growing in policy. This poetic study investigates the public's intention to actively create leisure spaces from a socio-spatial standpoint. This paper proposes a new concept of “leisure governmentality” based on Foucault's theory of governmentality, and uses urban parks as an example of representative public leisure spaces. It was intended to confirm that it was manufactured as claimed. Foucault's own archaeological and genealogical methodologies were applied to the research method, and the research hypothesis that public leisure spaces are produced as a means of leisure governmentality was demonstrated through literature research on the history of Seoul's urban parks. As a result of the analysis, the purpose of production (leisure governmentality), discourse, and the form of urban park landscapes after the modern era are dependent on the political, economic, and sociocultural environments of each era. As a device of power, it is evident that it was designed to control the subject to be ruled. By expanding the socio-spatial horizon of leisure spaces, which had been insufficient in the field of leisure and tourism studies, this study serves as a reminder that public leisure spaces such as urban parks can be more than just functional and aesthetically pleasing spaces; they can also be spaces with a political purpose. This study is significant because it contributed to the expansion of the scope of leisure tourism by laying the groundwork for employing Foucault's theory of governmentality, which has been actively debated in numerous social science and urban research fields, as a theoretical framework in the field of leisure and tourism studies.