The Discipline of Leisure
The Discipline of Leisure

Author: Simon Coleman

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0857450395

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The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.

Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies
Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

Author: Tony Blackshaw

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-26

Total Pages: 1348

ISBN-13: 100015615X

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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 examining 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 contemporary 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 21st 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 intellectual guide of first choice for all scholars, academics, researchers and students working in this subject area.

Philosophy of Leisure
Philosophy of Leisure

Author: Johan Bouwer

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1317433734

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What is leisure? How does leisure relate to leading a good life? This critical and intelligent study interrogates the basic principles of leisure and demonstrates the continuing relevance of these questions for our society today. It not only explores the traditional philosophical concepts at the heart of leisure studies, but also pursues new possibilities for reconceptualising leisure that have emerged from recent developments in society, technology and the broader discipline of philosophy itself. Approaching leisure from a philosophically inquisitive perspective, the book argues that leisure revolves around the pursuit of happiness, human flourishing and well-being, making it both a state of mind and a state of being. Its exploration of the meaning of leisure addresses key issues such as identity, ethics, spirituality, human experience, freedom, technology, embodiment, well-being, the fundamental properties of leisure and the challenge of offering a meaningful definition. Revitalising the subject of leisure studies with its originality, Philosophy of Leisure: Foundations of the Good Life is fascinating reading for all students and scholars of leisure studies, philosophy, sociology, psychology and ethics.

Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture)
Leisure and Spirituality (Engaging Culture)

Author: Paul Heintzman

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1441245499

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This addition to the award-winning Engaging Culture series explores the link between leisure and spirituality, offering a Christian perspective on leisure concepts and issues in contemporary society. Paul Heintzman, a respected scholar and experienced recreation practitioner, interacts with biblical, historical, and contemporary leisure studies sources to provide a comprehensive understanding of leisure. He also explains the importance of leisure for spiritual growth and development. This work will appeal to professors and students as well as practitioners in the recreation and leisure services field, youth and college pastors, and camp ministries.

An Introduction to Leisure Studies
An Introduction to Leisure Studies

Author: Peter Bramham

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2014-10-27

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1473908426

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"There are textbooks galore, but there aren’t many crafted as intelligently as this one. This book will change the way that students understand leisure. It will give them an easier entry to that place where difficult ideas fuse into something intelligible, where real understanding sits and the educated imagination is stirred." - Tony Blackshaw, Sheffield Hallam University Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg provide a foundation for those studying within the broad field of leisure studies. The book gives students an accessible and engaging introduction to leisure studies and leisure research, encouraging students to engage in reflexive analysis of their common sense understandings of everyday life and enabling them to develop an understanding of contemporary leisure studies and changing leisure practices.

Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World
Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World

Author: Anju Beniwal

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-04-06

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 3319709755

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This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces. Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.

Leisure Services Management
Leisure Services Management

Author: Amy R. Hurd

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1718213433

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Leisure Services Management, Third Edition, outlines essential knowledge and competencies for successful leisure managers. The text prepares students for the Certified Park and Recreation Professional (CPRP) exam and for careers in commercial recreation, public agencies, and the nonprofit sector

The Labour of Leisure
The Labour of Leisure

Author: Chris Rojek

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1412945534

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Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labour. Modern men and women are required to be competent, relevant and credible, not only in the work place but with their mates, children, parents and communities. The requisite empathy for others, socially acceptable values and correct forms of self-presentation demand work. Much of this work is concentrated in non-work activity, compromising traditional connections between leisure and freedom. Ranging widely from an analysis of the inflated aspirations of the leisure society thesis to the culture of deception that permeates leisure choice, Rojek shows how leisure is inextricably linked to emotional labour and intelligence. It is now a school for life. In challenging the orthodox understandings of freedom and free time, The Labour of Leisure sets out an indispensable new approach to the meaning of leisure. Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of leisure studies.

Work and Leisure
Work and Leisure

Author: John Trevor Haworth

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780415250580

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This book brings together specially commissioned chapters from international experts in a wide range of disciplines concerned with work, leisure and well-being to discuss key, topical issues.

Leisure Settings
Leisure Settings

Author: Douglas P. Mackaman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-12

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0226500756

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And ultimately shows how the premier vacation of an era made and was made by the bourgeoisie.