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The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure Peter Bramham Stephen Wagg The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure Also by Peter Bramham HOW STAFF RULE: Structures of Authority in Two Community Schools UNDERSTANDING LEISURE (co-authored) LEISURE AND URBAN PROCESSES (co-edited) LEISURE POLICIES IN EUROPE (co-edited) LEISURE RESEARCH IN EUROPE (co-edited) SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE: A Reader (co-edited) SPORTS DEVELOPMENT: Policy, Process and Practice (co-edited) SPORT, LEISURE AND CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN CITY (co-edited) Also by Stephen Wagg THE SOCIAL FACES OF HUMOUR (co-edited) BECAUSE I TELL A JOKE OR TWO: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference (edited) BRITISH FOOTBALL AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION (edited) CRICKET AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-COLONIAL ERA: Following On (edited) EAST PLAYS WEST: Essays on Sport and the Cold War (co-edited) AMATEURISM IN BRITISH SPORT: It Matters Not Who Won or Lost? (co-edited) KEY CONCEPTS IN SPORT STUDIES (co-authored) SPORT, LEISURE AND CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN CITY (co-edited) The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure Edited By Peter Bramham Leeds Metropolitan University, UK and Stephen Wagg Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Selection and editorial matter © Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg 2011 Individual chapters © their respective authors 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-21683-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. 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GV14.N49 2010 306.4’812–dc22 2010032360 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 Contents Notes on Contributors vii Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure 1 Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg 1 Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations 11 Peter Bramham 2 Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol 32 Consumption, Past and Present Chas Critcher 3 Outdoor Recreation and the Environment 45 Neil Ravenscroft and Paul Gilchrist 4 Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure 63 Philip Drake and Richard Haynes 5 Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture 82 Feona Attwood 6 Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk and Leisure 97 Shane Blackman 7 States, Markets and New Media: The Contemporary Politics of 119 Gambling Jackie West and Terry Austrin 8 Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work and Leisure 136 Andy Miah 9 Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality 153 Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan 10 ‘They Can’t Stop Us Laughing’; Politics, Leisure and the 169 Comedy Business Stephen Wagg 11 Noughties Reading 195 Nicole Matthews 12 Sport and Lifestyle 211 John Horne v vi Contents 13 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in 225 an Era of X Factorand Digital Pirates Brett Lashua 14 Doublethink: ‘Deregulation’, Censure and ‘Adult-Sex’ on 245 Television Julian Petley 15 Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure 268 and Pleasure Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg Index 270 Notes on Contributors Feona Attwoodis Principal Lecturer in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Her research is in the general area of gender, sex, tech- nology, the body and media. She is the editor of Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture (2009) and porn.com: Making Sense of Online Pornography(2010). Terry Austrinis Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canter- bury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has also taught in universities in Britain and the United States. His research interests include gambling and sexuality and he is the author, with Huw Beynon, of Masters and Servants: Class and Patronage in the Making of a Labour Organisation(1997). Shane Blackman is Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK and has written widely on young people’s culture. He is the author of Youth: Positions and Oppositions – Style, Sexuality and Schooling (1995) and “Chilling Out": The Cultural Politics of Substance Consumption, Youth and Drug Policy(2004). Peter Bramham is a Visiting Research Fellow, and former Reader, in the Carnegie Faculty at Leeds Metropolitan University, in the UK. His publica- tions include Understanding Leisure (with John Capenerhurst, Les Haywood, I. P. Henry, Frank Kew and John Spink, 1995), A Sociology of Leisure: A Reader (edited with Chas Critcher and Alan Tomlinson), Leisure and the Urban Process(1989) and LeisurePolicies in Europe (1993) (both edited with Ian Henry, Hans Mommaas and Hugo van der Poel). His most recent book is Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City, a study of Leeds, edited with Stephen Wagg (2009). Chas Critcheris a Professor in the Department of Media and Communica- tion at the University of Swansea. He is currently making comparisons of moral panics across nations and deploys and tests models of moral panics against a range of examples including AIDS, rave/ecstasy, video nasties, child abuse and paedophilia. His latest book on the subject is Critical Readings: Moral Panics and the Media (2006). With John Clarke, he also wrote the influential study of leisure The Devil Makes Work: Leisure in Capitalist Britain(1995). Philip Drake is a Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He conducts research vii viii Notes on Contributors on the cultural politics of celebrity and is completing a book on the political economy of the Hollywood film industry. Paul Gilchristis a Research Fellow in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton in the UK. He is completing a doctorate on the cultural politics of heroism in British mountaineering between 1921 and 1995. Richard Haynesis a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at Stirling University and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has a special interest in the relationship between sport and the media. His principal publications are The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture(1995); Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture(2000) with Raymond Boyle; Football in the New Media Age (2004) also with Raymond Boyle and Media Rights and Intellectual Property (2005). John Horneis Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. His most recent book is: Sport in Consumer Culture (2006). With Wolfram Manzenreiter, he also edited Japan, Korea and the 2002 World Cup(2002), Football Goes East: Business, Culture and the People’s Game in China, Japan and Korea (2004) and Sports Mega-Events: Social Scientific Analyses of a Global Phenomenon(2006). Brett Lashualectures in Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. He previously worked at the Institute of Popular Music at Liverpool University in the UK. He holds degrees from Kent State University in the United States and a doctorate from the University of Alberta in Canada. His research explores the intersections of youth, popular music and music- making technologies, space and place, and leisure. Nicole Matthews lectures in Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Australia, having previously taught at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. Her research is on the relation between media, practices of the self and formations of citizenship in neo-liberal political cultures. Her books include Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy after the New Right (2000) and (as editor, with Nickianne Moody) Judging a Book by its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers and the Marketing of Books (2007). Andy Miahis Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, USA and a Fellow at FACT, the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, UK. He is author of Genetically Modified Athletes Notes on Contributors ix (2004) and co-author with Dr Emma Rich of The Medicalization of Cyber- space(2008) and editor of Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty(2008). His research concerns the intersections of art, ethics, technology and culture and he has published broadly in areas of emerging technologies, particularly related to human enhancement. Nigel Morgan is Professor of Tourism Studies at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. He is editor, with Annette Pritchard and Roger Pride of Destination Branding. Building the Unique Place Proposition(2009). Julian Petley is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University in London, UK. He is the author of many books on the media, the most recent of which are Culture Wars: the Media and the British Left(with James Curran and Ivor Gaber) (2005), Freedom of the Word(2007) and Freedom of the Moving Image(with Philip French) (2008). With Martin Barker, he also edited Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate (2001). Annette Pritchardis Professor and Director of Welsh Centre for Tourism Research at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. She is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Languages and Communication in Milan and a Member of the Executive Committee of the UK’s Association of Tourism in Higher Education. Neil Ravenscroft is Professor of Land Economy at the University of Brighton. He researches and writes on sport, recreation and the environ- ment. He has contributed to policy development in the area of recreational access to private land and is a member of the editorial board of Leisure Studies. Stephen Waggis a Professor in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK. He has written widely on the politics of comedy, as well as the politics of sport and of childhood. He edited Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference in 1998. Jackie West teaches in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University in the UK, where her research interests include the gambling and sex indus- tries. With Minghua Zhao, she edited Women of China: Economic and Social Transformation(1999).
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