ABSTRACT
This paper considers the negotiation of leisure practices and knowledges in the current flux of Polish culture and everyday life. Poland's contemporary leisure has distinctive cultural influences and forms. These relate to cultural tradition, to a political concept of mass-consumption of the recent past and to the concept of individual consumption of Western civilisation. There is considerable flux in these patterns due to socio-cultural transformations in Central European countries. Leisure practices are considered according to their symbolic meaning and spatiality in two categories: nomadic-symbolic, pilgrimages, secular and religious holidays, and settler-consumer: private gardens, weekend-houses, feasts.
