Broschiertes Buch

The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure

Beschreibung

This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left behind. In their leisure lives whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished?

Autor

FEONA ATTWOOD is Principal Lecturer in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK TERRY AUSTRIN is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand SHANE BLACKMAN is Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK CHAS CRITCHER is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Swansea, UK PHILIP DRAKE is Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland, UK PAUL GILCHRIST is a Research Fellow in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton, UK RICHARD HAYNES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at Stirling University, UK and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute JOHN HORNE is Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK BRETT LASHUA lectures in Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK NICOLE MATTHEWS lectures in Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia ANDY MIAH is Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland, UK NIGEL MORGAN is Professor of Tourism Studies at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK JULIAN PETLEY is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University in London, UK ANNETTE PRITCHARD is Professor and Director of Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales InstituteCardiff, UK NEIL RAVENSCROFT is Professor of Land Economy at the University of Brighton, UK JACKIE WEST teaches in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University, UK

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-21684-6
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780230216846
• ISBN-10: 0230216846
• Artikelnr.: 32087004