Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure

Edited by Karl Spracklen, Associate Professor of Sociology of Leisure and Culture, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Brett Lashua, Lecturer in Sociology of Media and Education, Institute of Education, University College London, UK and Felice Yuen, Professor, Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Canada

‘The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure is a must-read collection, organized into three compelling themes—starting lines, turning points, and disputational moments. Featuring diverse scholars and theoretical insights, this essential Research Handbook invites readers to return again and again for fresh perspectives on leisure’s shifting social meanings and radical potential.’

• ContentsIntroduction: starting lines, turning points, and disputational moments in the sociology of leisure 1Brett Lashua, Felice Yuen and Karl SpracklenPART I STARTING LINES1 Joffre Dumazedier and the sociology of leisure 17A.J. Veal2 A theoretical toolkit for surviving in leisure studies from the 1960s to the 2020s 33Ken Roberts3 Serious leisure perspective 48Robert A. Stebbins4 The Devil Makes Work: a retrospective analysis of the sociology of leisure 64Robert Snape5 The civilizing process and the quest for excitement in leisure: sociological notes based on Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning 78Christianne Luce Gomes6 Professor Alan Tomlinson: the importance of being critical 90Karl Spracklen7 Zygmunt Bauman and the liquid modern world 102Spencer Swain8 Chris Rojek: six monographs in search of a narrative 116Ian R. Lamond9 W.E.B. Du Bois and the sociology of leisure: anti-racism in a social justice context for leisure studies 131Rasul A. Mowatt10 Post-structuralism and physical culture in the sociology of leisure 147Neil CarrPART II TURNING POINTS11 Iron cage of moral panics: Stanley Cohen, Jock Young, and Stuart Hall on youth cultures, moral panics, folk devils, and woke 160Shane Blackman and Claire Davey12 Henri Lefebvre: key concepts and (social) spaces of leisure 177Sina Kuzuoglu and Troy D. Glover13 Feminisms and the sociology of leisure: advancing a politics of hope, complexity, and radical care 192Bronwen L. Valtchanov and Diana C. Parry14 Men and masculinities in leisure: Polynesian rugby league players and the changing face of modern masculinity 209Phillip Borell15 Normativity, discipline, and surveillance: affirming non-dominant gender and sexual identities in leisure 222Corey W. Johnson16 Transgender youth and leisure: oppositional sexism in recreational and Olympic sport 240Fenton Litwiller17 Leisure/arts activism: doing activist arts-based research in the context of dementia 256Sherry L. Dupuis and Pia Kontos18 “Greenwood Hatchery, which chick do you want?” Finding leisure, a home, and “growing up at ‘The 908’” 272Mary G. Parr19 How leisure and leisure professionals need to be present for those who are dying 285Karen M. Fox and Lisa McDermott20 Shifting tides: questions, reflections, and calls to action on whiteness in leisure studies 300Leah Joyner and Dana Kivel21 Leisure, resistance movements, and marginalised youth: 30 years of the Cultural Group AfroReggae, a non-governmental organisation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 318Ana Paula Cunha Pereira22 Young people, leisure and urban space: youth cultures in the city 334Carlo GenovaPART III DISPUTATIONAL MOMENTS23 Feminist knowledges, emotion, and affect in the sociology of leisure 351Simone Fullagar, Erin Nichols and Adele Pavlidis24 Feminist materialisms and leisure: making kin in times of crisis 365Allison Jeffrey and Holly Thorpe25 Homelessness, necropolitics, and the panopticon of public space 380Jeff Rose26 Sleeping ruff: human-dog bonding in a disposable society 394Justin Harmon27 Decolonial feminism and solo women travel: theoretical possibilities and research agenda 404Kelen Cristina Duarte, Christine N. Buzinde and Marlusa de Sevilha Gosling28 On what goes unnoticed: critical dialogues across leisure and (forced) migration studies 422Nicola De Martini Ugolotti29 Chinese diaspora communities and leisure 439Bonnie Pang, Lucen Liu, Alexandra Wong and Beccy Watson30 Leisure as ideological infrastructure: four nodes of far-right and new-right mobilization 454Luc S. Cousineau31 The co-opting of youth social media leisure engagements in a neoliberal school context 471Jessie A. Bustillos Morales32 Hobos on a train: leisure and rhythm-as-difference in a (post)pandemic world 487Brian E. Kumm, Joseph A. Pate and Sasha C. Mader33 Being(s), un/doing(s) and going(s) elsewhere: (foot)notes on academia and beyond 502Lisbeth A. Berbary, Lauren A. Mohamed and Kimberly J. Lopez