Synopses & Reviews
This handbook addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. More than thirty chapters from leading international scholars are presented in five clearly defined parts. These examine the origins of leisure studies; review and evaluate the contributions and approaches to leisure studies of key social science disciplines; provide a guide to core questions in the organization of leisure that recur in the literature; consider locations and forms of leisure; and consider the key themes that run through debates as the subject has matured in a central part of the social science canon. Critically summing up the achievements of the field and providing an agenda for future debate and research, it offers an invaluable resource for students, scholars and lecturers.
Synopsis
With this Handbook leisure studies comes of age. It provides the most complete, authoritative guide to the roots, current issues and future of the field. Drawing on a formidable list of leading international contributors, the Handbook is organized into five parts. Part 1:
Origins, examines western and non-western traditions in leisure studies. It demonstrates the inter-disciplinary roots of the subject and provides a compelling framework for locating leisure studies. Part 2:
Key Disciplines, surveys and evaluates the distinctive approaches of sociology, psychology and social psychology; geography; economics; politics and public policy. Part 3:
Axial Principles, examines the institutions of power in which leisure form and practice is situated: time; work; gender; ageing; race; class; subculture; consumption and mass communication. Part 4:
Forms and Settings, explores on-location behaviour in leisure; outdoor recreation; tourism; eating out; family leisure; education; serious leisure. Part 5:
Indexical Themes, situates leisure forms and practice in the context of power, knowledge, economy and society. It examines questions of identity; representation; praxis; articulation; community and resistance.
The result is a landmark work in the field. It defines what has been accomplished and it suggests exciting and relevant new directions for study.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
This handbook addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. More than thirty chapters from leading international scholars are presented in five clearly defined parts. These examine the origins of leisure studies; review and evaluate the contributions and approaches to leisure studies of key social science disciplines; provide a guide to core questions in the organization of leisure that recur in the literature; consider locations and forms of leisure; and consider the key themes that run through debates as the subject has matured in a central part of the social science canon. Critically summing up the achievements of the field and providing an agenda for future debate and research, it offers an invaluable resource for students, scholars and lecturers.
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 & Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney, and has
authored/co-authored a number of books, including Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism and Work and Leisure.
Professor SUSAN SHAW is Chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is author/co-author of a great many publications, including Both Gains and Gaps: Feminist Perspectives on Women's Leisure.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements * List of Contributors * Introduction--
C.Rojek, S.M.Shaw & A.J.Veal * PART 1: ORIGINS * Leisure, Culture and Civilization--
C.Rojek * Anthropology/Pre-History of Leisure--
G.Chick * The History of Western Leisure--
B.Hunnicutt * Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India--
K.Bhattacharya * PART 2: 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 3: 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 and Mass Communications--
D.Rowe * PART 4: 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 5: 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 * Index