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A Handbook of Leisure Studies

A Handbook of Leisure Studies


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A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors Introduction: Process and Context; C.Rojek, S.M.Shaw & A.J.Veal PART I: ORIGINS Leisure, Culture and Civilization; C.Rojek Anthropology/Pre-History of Leisure; G.Chick The History of Western Leisure; B.K.Hunnicutt Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India; K.Bhattacharya PART II: KEY DISCIPLINES Sociology and Cultural Studies; H.van der Poel Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure; R.C.Mannell, D.A.Kleiber & M.Staempfli Geographies of Leisure; D.Crouch Economics of Leisure; A.J.Veal The Duality of Leisure Policy; F.Coalter PART III: AXIAL PRINCIPLES Leisure and Time; J.Zuzanek Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD; J.B.Schor Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research; K.A.Henderson & S.M.Shaw Leisure and Ageing; Y.Harahousou Race and Leisure; V.J.Freysinger & O.Harris A Touch of Class; C.Critcher Leisure and Subculture; C.Jenks Leisure and Consumption; D.T.Cook Leisure, Mass Communications and Media; D.Rowe PART IV: LEISURE FORMS AND SETTINGS Sport and Sports Studies; S.Birrell The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy; D.Stevenson Outdoor Recreation; J.M.Jenkins & J.J.Pigram Tourism; A.Franklin Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure; J.Finkelstein & R.Lynch Family Leisure; M.Harrington Leisure and Education; A.Sivan Serious Leisure; R.A.Stebbins PART V: INDEXICAL THEMES Representation; C.Rojek Identity; C.Rojek The Concept of Praxis: Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries; C.Barker Articulation; D.Harris Community; A.Pedlar & L.Haworth Resistance; S. M. Shaw Index

About the Author :
CHRIS ROJEK is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of many books the most recent of which are Leisure Theory, Celebrity, Stuart Hall and Frank Sinatra. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure Studies. ANTHONY J. VEAL is President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and former Chair of the Leisure Studies Association (UK). He is Adjunct Professor at the School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism at the University of Technolog

Review :
'essential not only because of its attempt to set an agenda for the area of study, but because of the wide ranging, high quality contributions, which can be used in their own right' - Geoff Nichols, Leisure Studies 'should prove invaluable for students as they have to come to terms with complex fields of study...' - Peter Bramham, Sociology


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781403902788
  • Publisher: Palgrave USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 577
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 140390278X
  • Publisher Date: 20 Jun 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
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