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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LEISURE STUDIES This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and exam ining Leisure Studies’ fundamental connections with cognate disciplines such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Sport Studies and Tourism. This book contains original work from key scholars across the globe, including those working outside the Leisure Studies mainstream. It showcases the state of the art of contem porary Leisure Studies, covering key topics and key thinkers from the psychology of leisure to leisure policy, from Bourdieu to Baudrillard, and suggests that leisure in the twenty-first century should be understood as centring on a new ‘Big Seven’ (holidays, drink, drugs, sex, gambling, TV and shopping). No other book has gone as far in redefining the identity of the discipline of Leisure Studies, or in suggesting how the substantive ideas of Leisure Studies need to be rethought. The Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies should therefore be the intel lectual guide of first choice for all scholars, academics, researchers and students working in this subject area. Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes in Leisure Studies which include the following: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (Routledge, 2003), The Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies (with Garry Crawford) (Sage, 2009) and Leisure (Routledge, 2010). ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LEISURE STUDIES Edited by Tony Blackshaw 'JSTUQVCMJTIFEJOQBQFSCBDL First published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 201 Tony Blackshaw The right of the editor to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Routledge handbook of leisure studies / edited by Tony Blackshaw. pages cm 1. Leisure--Social aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Recreation--Social aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Blackshaw, Tony, 1960– GV14.R68 2013 790.01--dc23 2012043937 ISBN: 978-0-415-69717-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-92461-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-14050-5 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo and Minion Pro by Bookcraft Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire CONTENTS List of illustrations x Acknowledgements xi Notes on contributors xii Introduction 1 Tony Blackshaw PART I Key disciplines 3 1 Philosophy of leisure 5 Alexander Sager 2 The making of modern leisure: the British experience c.1850 to c.1960 15 Dave Russell 3 Feminist Leisure Studies: origins, accomplishments and prospects 26 Karla A. Henderson 4 Psychology of leisure 40 Roger C. Mannell and Douglas A. Kleiber 5 Economics of leisure 52 Chris Gratton 6 Leisure management: moving with the times 61 Peter Taylor Contents 7 Leisure policy: the example of sport 72 Matthew Nicholson and Bob Stewart 8 Research positions, postures and practices in Leisure Studies 82 Jonathan Long PART II Key thinkers 97 9 Theodor W. Adorno, the culture industry and leisure 99 Simon Mussell 10 The leisure class: from Veblen to Linder to MacCannell 110 David Scott 11 Norbert Elias and Leisure Studies 120 Dominic Malcolm, Louise Mansfield and Jason Hughes 12 Michel Foucault and leisure 133 Toby Miller 13 Leisure at the end of modernity: Jürgen Habermas on the purpose of leisure 141 Karl Spracklen 14 Chris Rojek 150 Peter Bramham 15 Two sociologists: Pierre Bourdieu and Zygmunt Bauman 164 Tony Blackshaw 16 What they did on their holidays: Virilio, Baudrillard, Leisure Studies and post-theory 179 Steve Redhead PART III Leisure as a socio-cultural phenomenon 191 17 Theorizing social class, culture and leisure 193 Peter Bramham 18 Leisure in culture 202 Garry Chick vi Contents 19 Racisms and the experiences of minorities in amateur football in the UK and Europe 216 Steven Bradbury 20 Family leisure 230 Maureen Harrington 21 Gendered freedoms and constraints for young women socializing in bars and clubs 243 Oona Brooks 22 Leisure and the life course 257 Ken Roberts 23 Lifestyle and leisure theory 266 A. J. Veal 24 The leisured nature of tourism: a sociological critique 280 Stephen Wearing and Alan Law PART IV The Big Seven leisure pursuits 293 25 The annual holiday: its rise, transformations, expansion and fragmentation 295 John K. Walton 26 The demon drink: alcohol and moral regulation, past and present 305 Henry Yeomans and Chas Critcher 27 From the back street to the high street: commercial gambling and the commodification of chance 316 Gerda Reith 28 Leisure sex: more sex! Better sex! Sex is fucking brilliant! Sex, sex, sex, SEX 325 Feona Attwood and Clarissa Smith 29 Television and cultural citizenship 337 Nick Stevenson 30 Recreational drug use and the club scene 347 Margaretha Järvinen vii Contents 31 How shopping changed leisure 358 Tony Blackshaw PART V Uses of leisure 373 32 Abnormal leisure and normalization 375 Chris Rojek 33 Behind the net-curtain: home-based work and leisure spaces 390 Jon Dart 34 Consumerism as shaped by the pursuit of leisure 402 Robert A. Stebbins 35 Leisure and higher education 413 David Harris 36 Leisure, national identity and celebrating national difference 422 Alan Bairner 37 Social capitalism and leisure policy reconsidered 432 Tony Blackshaw 38 Serious leisure: the case of groundhopping 443 David Bauckham 39 Volunteering as leisure, leisure as volunteering 456 Geoff Nichols and Kirsten Holmes with Tom Baum 40 Yin and Yang: the relationship of leisure and work 468 Joy Beatty and William R. Torbert PART VI New directions 481 41 Cultural tourism 483 Greg Richards 42 Event Management 493 Chris Rojek viii Contents 43 Extreme leisure: the case of extreme sporting activities 506 Victoria Robinson 44 Leisure, community, and politics 521 Erin K. Sharpe 45 Ethnicity, racism and the real social value of sport 530 Grant Jarvie 46 The labour of leisure reconsidered 544 Chris Rojek and Tony Blackshaw 47 Virtual leisure 560 Garry Crawford 48 Youth culture, leisure and lifestyle: from subcultures to post-subcultures 571 Andy Bennett 49 The meaning of liquid leisure 584 Johan Bouwer and Marco van Leeuwen Index 597 ix
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