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Routledge handbook of leisure studies / edited by Tony Blackshaw.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge handbooksPublisher: Description: (xxii, 610 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781138924611
  • 9780203140505
  • 9781136495588
  • 1136495584
  • 9781299482722
  • 1299482724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 790.01 R869
LOC classification:
  • GV14 .R68 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. I. Key disciplines -- pt. II. Key thinkers -- pt. III. Leisure as a socio-cultural phenomenon -- pt. IV. The Big Seven leisure pursuits -- pt. V. Uses of leisure -- pt. VI. New directions.
Summary: 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 th.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Key disciplines -- pt. II. Key thinkers -- pt. III. Leisure as a socio-cultural phenomenon -- pt. IV. The Big Seven leisure pursuits -- pt. V. Uses of leisure -- pt. VI. New directions.

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 th.