How do authoritarian regimes create societal consent? In this paper, I examine the use of camps and summer schools as strategic sites for politicized leisure. Theorizing leisure as a tool of ideological engineering enhances our understanding of autocratization. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/87IX8DC2634GXYXVMDUQ/full?target=10.1080/14683849.2025.2468432