Leisure Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415411660 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 1856 str.

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Edited by two leading scholars in the field, Leisure Studies is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Leisure Studies. The origin of Leisure Studies is comparatively recent. The subject is largely a postwar development which began to unfold in the 1960s, initially in the USA and Europe. The subject area has continued to evolve internationally from a number of other disciplines and cognate areas such as outdoor recreation, geography, history, economics, and sociology and there has been a corresponding growth in Leisure Studies scholarship. Leisure Studies is now a vibrant and dynamic field of study and research, and the sheer scale of the growth in its output makes this collection especially timely. A wide range of social science journals have published leisure-related material and this Major Work makes available foundational pieces of scholarship as well as cutting-edge research from these disparate, and sometimes less accessible sources, as well as from the leading UK, European, and North American leisure journals, and from other publications, some of which are no longer in print. As well as bringing together the key studies and journal articles that have shaped leisure thought, the collection is to be welcomed as the first mapping of an area that to date has lacked an interdisciplinary synthesis. The thematic organization of the collection, together with the editors introductions and their commentaries on the collected texts, makes sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed Leisure Studies, and reviews the history of the subject and the rise of its identity and research agenda. It is an essential collection destined to be valued as a vital research resource by all scholars and students of the subject."

Spis treści

Volume I: Disciplinary Contributions to the Evolution of Leisure Studies  Part 1: Geography  Part 2: History  Part 3: Social Policy, Social Theory and Conceptualizations of Leisure  Part 4: The Work-Leisure Debate  Part 5: Leisure Theory and Lifestyle  Part 6: The Economics and Psychology of Leisure  Volume II: Leisure, Space and Place  Part 7: The Home and Domestic Leisure  Part 8: Urban Leisure and the Urban Environment  Part 9: The Impact of Demand on Recreational Resources  Volume III: Leisure, Participation and Society  Part 10: Leisure Motivation  Part 11: Constraints to Leisure Participation  Part 12: Leisure, Time and Work: Implications for Participation  Part 13: Social Groups, Leisure and Participation  Volume IV: Managing Leisure Resources: Policy, Planning and Practice  Part 14: Concepts and Tools for Managing Leisure Resources and Users  Part 15: The Public Sector, Leisure Resources and their Management  Part 16: Leisure and Consumers: Marketing and Management Issues  Part 17: The Future of Leisure Studies and Leisure Research