A Handbook of Leisure Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Process and Content....Pages 1-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Leisure, Culture and Civilization....Pages 25-40
Anthropology/Pre-history of Leisure....Pages 41-54
The History of Western Leisure....Pages 55-74
Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India....Pages 75-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Sociology and Cultural Studies....Pages 93-108
Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure....Pages 109-124
Geographies of Leisure....Pages 125-139
Economics of Leisure....Pages 140-161
The Duality of Leisure Policy....Pages 162-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Leisure and Time....Pages 185-202
Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD....Pages 203-215
Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research....Pages 216-230
Leisure and Ageing....Pages 231-249
Race and Leisure....Pages 250-270
A Touch of Class....Pages 271-287
Leisure and Subculture....Pages 288-303
Leisure and Consumption....Pages 304-316
Leisure, Mass Communications and Media....Pages 317-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Sport and Sport Studies....Pages 335-353
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy....Pages 354-362
Outdoor Recreation....Pages 363-385
Tourism....Pages 386-403
Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure....Pages 404-416
Family Leisure....Pages 417-432
Leisure and Education....Pages 433-447
Serious Leisure....Pages 448-456
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
Representation....Pages 459-474
Identity....Pages 475-490
The concept of praxis Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries....Pages 491-503
Articulation....Pages 504-517
Community....Pages 518-532
Resistance....Pages 533-545
Back Matter....Pages 547-577