Landscapes of Leisure Space, Place and Identities

by Gammon, Sean; Elkington, Sam

• ISBN13: 9781137428523
• ISBN10: 113742852X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-05-27
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The leisure landscape is a complex and diverse one that is both natural and built, dark and light, safe and dangerous, contained or without boundary, and profoundly influences the manner in which leisure is performed and experienced. These leisurescapes are increasingly becoming significant sites for the construction of individual and shared frameworks in which people orient themselves and act in wider society.

Drawing on international contributions by leading researchers in the field, this collection aims to map out the complex relationship that leisure has with place. A key element of the volume will be to illustrate the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, and by doing so offer, for the first time, a more rounded and inclusive approach to the study of leisure and place. It also aims to explore and elucidate the extent to which leisure places and spaces form, affect and influence personal, social and collective identities.

Author Biography

Sean Gammon is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has been actively researching in the area of sport tourism for three decades; primarily focusing on sport tourist customer motivation, and nostalgia and heritage. He is co-editor, with Sam Elkington, of Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure (2014).

Sam Elkington is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Northumbria University, UK. Sam's research reflects his interests in philosophical and social psychological dimensions of space and place, as well as theorising various aspects of the Serious Leisure Perspective. He is co-author of The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction (with Robert Stebbins, 2014).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction – Reading Landscapes: Articulating a non-essentialist Representation of Space, Place and Identity; Sam Elkington and Sean Gammon
2. Unravelling Space and Landscape in Leisure's Identities; David Crouch
3. Disturbance and Complexity in Urban Places: The Everyday Aesthetics of Leisure; Sam Elkington
4. The Social Dynamics of Space Constructions and Leisure Lifestyles; Anna Cunha Pereira and Jonathan Long
5. Zombie Places? Pop Up Leisure and Re-Animated Urban Landscapes; Brett D. Lashua
6. Last Resting places? Recreational spaces? Or Thanatourism attractions? The Future of Historic Cemeteries and Churchyards in Europe; Tony Seaton, Magda North and Gabriela Gajda
7. Animating Public Space; Troy D. Glover
8. Sport Tourism finding its Place?; Sean Gammon
9. Youth Leisure, Places, Spaces and Identity; Joan Abbott-Chapman and Margaret Robertson
10. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports in Natural Landscapes; Eric Brymer and Robert Schweitzer
11. Seasideness: Sense of Place at a Seaside Resort; David Jarratt
12. Savouring Leisure Spaces; Jaime Kurtz and Erik Simmons
13. Weaving Place Meanings into Outdoor Recreation Sustainability: The Case of the Niagara Glen; Garrett Hutson and Ryan Howard
14. Distant at Your Leisure: Consuming Distance as a Leisure Experience; Gunvor Larsen
15. The Lure of the Countryside: The Spiritual Dimension of Rural Spaces of Leisure; Deborah Jepson
16. Performing Leisure, Making Place: Wilderness Identity and Representation in Online Trip Reports; Daniel Williams and Joseph Champ