A Handbook of Leisure Studies

by Rojek, Chris; Veal, Tony; Shaw, Susan

• ISBN13: 9781403902788
• ISBN10: 140390278X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-07-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
1. Introduction: Process and Content	1	(24)
Chris Rojek, Susan M. Shaw and A.J. Veal
Part 1: Origins
2. Leisure, Culture and Civilization	25	(16)
Chris Rojek
3. Anthropology/Pre-History of Leisure	41	(14)
Garry Chick
4. The History of Western Leisure	55	(20)
Benjamin K. Hunnicutt
5. Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India	75	(18)
Kumkum Bhattacharya
Part 2: Key Disciplines
6. Sociology and Cultural Studies	93	(16)
Hugo van der Poel
7. Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure	109	(16)
Roger C. Mannell, Douglas A. Kleiber and Marianne Staempfli
8. Geographies of Leisure	125	(15)
David Crouch
9. Economics of Leisure	140	(22)
A.J. Veal
10. The Duality of Leisure Policy	162	(23)
Fred Coalter
Part 3: Axial Principles
11. Leisure and Time	185	(18)
Jiri Zuzanek
12. Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD	203	(13)
Juliet B. Schor
13. Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research	216	(15)
Karla A. Henderson and Susan M. Shaw
14. Leisure and Ageing	231	(19)
Yvonne Harahousou
15. Race and Leisure	250	(21)
Valeria J. Freysinger and Othello Harris
16. A Touch of Class	271	(17)
Chas Critcher
17. Leisure and Subculture	288	(16)
Chris Jenks
18. Leisure and Consumption	304	(13)
Daniel Thomas Cook
19. Leisure, Mass Communications and Media	317	(18)
David Rowe
Part 4: Leisure Forms and Settings
20. Sport and Sport Studies	335	(19)
Susan Birrell
21. The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy	354	(9)
Deborah Stevenson
22. Outdoor Recreation	363	(23)
John M. Jenkins and John I. Pigram
23. Tourism	386	(18)
Adrian Franklin
24. Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure	404	(13)
Joanne Finkelstein and Rob Lynch
25. Family Leisure	417	(16)
Maureen Harrington
26. Leisure and Education	433	(15)
Atara Sivan
27. Serious Leisure	448	(11)
Robert A. Stebbins
Part 5: Indexical Themes
28. Representation	459	(16)
Chris Rojek
29. Identity	475	(16)
Chris Rojek
30. The Concept of Praxis: Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries	491	(13)
Chris Barker
31. Articulation	504	(14)
David Harris
32. Community	518	(15)
Alison Pedlar and Lawrence Haworth
33. Resistance	533	(14)
Susan M. Shaw
Index	547