ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to offer a theoretical and methodological perspective on studying leisure, building on the critique and concerns raised in the previous chapter. Central to the chapter is how to understand cultural differences as the source of individuality and the formation of a respectable self. The chapter suggests Beverley Skeggs's theory on person Value(s) as a useful framework to apprehend and elucidate the complexity of the formation of subjectivity embedded into cultural enunciation, distinction and (dis)identification processes. This theory is expanded with the postcolonial literature to understand the cross-cultural configurations of respectability and cultural authority, particularly from the minority perspective.
