Re-Imagining Leisure Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138898844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 184 str.

Tony Blackshaw

Opis

In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of human life and social processes, including a plurality of new leisure worlds, and traditional concepts of Leisure Studies fail to capture this richness. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing and unpacking these leisure worlds, thereby changing the way we think about leisure and the way we do Leisure Studies. It presents new rules of method and radical ways of thinking about leisure life in the twenty-first century, and is vital reading for all students and scholars of Leisure Studies."

Spis treści

Part I: Some Considerations of Method  Part II: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Twenty-First Century Leisure  Part III: Towards an Understanding of Devotional Leisure 

O autorze

Tony Blackshaw is a leisure scholar and researcher of international standing who teaches at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He has published works on a broad range of themes in leisure studies which include the following: Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003), New Perspectives on Sport and ‘Deviance’: Consumption, Performativity and Social Control (with Tim Crabbe) (2004), The Sage Dictionary of Leisure Studies (with Garry Crawford) (2009), Leisure (2010) in Routledge’s Key Ideas series and The Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies (2013)