A Handbook of Leisure Studies

by Rojek, Chris; Veal, Anthony J.; Shaw, Susan M.

• ISBN13: 9781403902795
• ISBN10: 1403902798
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

With this Handbook leisure studies comes of age. Now available in paperback, 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 and 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.

Author Biography

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

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Process and Context	p. 1
Origins
Leisure, Culture and Civilization	p. 25
Anthropology/Pre-History of Leisure	p. 41
The History of Western Leisure	p. 55
Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India	p. 75
Key Disciplines
Sociology and Cultural Studies	p. 93
Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure	p. 109
Geographies of Leisure	p. 125
Economics of Leisure	p. 140
The Duality of Leisure Policy	p. 162
Axial Principles
Leisure and Time	p. 185
Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD	p. 203
Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research	p. 216
Leisure and Ageing	p. 231
Race and Leisure	p. 250
A Touch of Class	p. 271
Leisure and Subculture	p. 288
Leisure and Consumption	p. 304
Leisure, Mass Communications and Media	p. 317
Leisure Forms and Settings
Sport and Sport Studies	p. 335
The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy	p. 354
Outdoor Recreation	p. 363
Tourism	p. 386
Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure	p. 404
Family Leisure	p. 417
Leisure and Education	p. 433
Serious Leisure	p. 448
Indexical Themes
Representation	p. 459
Identity	p. 475
The Concept of Praxis: Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries	p. 491
Articulation	p. 504
Community	p. 518
Resistance	p. 533
Index	p. 547
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