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Informationen zum Autor Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes in Leisure Studies which include the following: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (Routledge, 2003) , The Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies (with Garry Crawford) (Sage, 2009) and Leisure (Routledge, 2010). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: Key Disciplines 1. Philosophy of Leisure 2. The Making of Modern Leisure: the British experience from c 1850- c 1960 3. Feminist Leisure Studies: Origins, accomplishments and prospects 4. Psychology of Leisure 5. Economics of Leisure 6. Leisure Management: Moving with the times 7. Leisure Policy: The example of sport 8. Research Positions, Postures and Practices in Leisure Studies Part 2: Key Thinkers 9. Theodor W. Adorno, the Culture Industry and Leisure 10. The Leisure Class: From Veblen to Linder to MacCannell 11. Norbert Elias and Leisure Studies 12. Michel Foucault and Leisure 13. Leisure at the End of Modernity: Jürgen Habermas on the purpose of leisure 14. Chris Rojek 15. Two Sociologists: Pierre Bourdieu and ...
