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Whiteness and Leisure
Av K. Spracklen
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports media and sports fandom, informal leisure, …
Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy
Av O. Smith
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the way we think about our city centres. Smith uses the night-time leisure economy as a lens through which to view the relationship between global consumer …
Theorizing Outdoor Recreation and Ecology
Av Sean Ryan
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Deciding what user impacts are natural or unnatural has inspired much debate. Biophysically, moose cause similar kinds of soil and vegetation impacts as hikers. Yet moose are the sign of nature while hikers are the sign of damage. The field of outdoor recreation is beset with paradoxes, and this …
Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles
Av Udo Merkel, Udo Merkel
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal …
Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests
Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities
Av S. Veijola, J. Germann Molz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and …
Careers in Serious Leisure
From Dabbler to Devotee in Search of Fulfilment
Av R. Stebbins
Inbunden, 2014
1067 kr
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Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. This career begins with an interest in a serious pursuit, leading to an efflorescence many years later in amateurism, hobbyism, volunteering, or …
Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture
Communities and Identities in a Digital Age
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new …
Domestic Animals and Leisure
Av Neil Carr
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the contributions to the collection are underpinned by ongoing debates about human-animal relationships and …
Landscapes of Leisure
Space, Place and Identities
Inbunden, 2015
1425 kr
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This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.
Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture
Av Gabby Riches, Dave Snell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1130 kr
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Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music scholarship is predicated on the engagement with other forms of popular culture such as comics, documentaries, and popular music. Drawing from a range …
Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment
Specialized Play
Inbunden, 2018
1425 kr
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This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents these people as producers, who conduct …
Performing Nashville
Music Tourism and Country Music's Main Street
Inbunden, 2017
1467 kr
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This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the individual and collective identities of …
Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby
Gender, Organization, and Ambivalence
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimulating argument for a sociology of seriousness as a productive contribution to understandings of gender, organization and the mid-ranges of agency …
Interrelationship of Leisure and Play
Play as Leisure, Leisure as Play
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study of play is unique. It recognizes the hundreds of activities in which play and leisure come together.
Critical Event Studies
Approaches to Research
Inbunden, 2016
1643 kr
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Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event management and event studies, but across the traditional and digital social sciences. This volume -with contributions from a range of international scholars- is the first to consider the wide variety of research approaches being used …
Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives
Ghosts & Glamour
Inbunden, 2017
552 kr
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This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these …
Whiteness and Leisure
Av K. Spracklen
Häftad, 2016
603 kr
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This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports media and sports fandom, informal leisure, …
Whiteness and Leisure
Av K. Spracklen
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports media and sports fandom, informal leisure, …
Sounds and the City
Popular Music, Place and Globalization
Av B. Lashua, K. Spracklen m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
378 kr
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This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording …
Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy
Av O. Smith
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the way we think about our city centres. Smith uses the night-time leisure economy as a lens through which to view the relationship between global consumer …
Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles
Av Udo Merkel
Häftad, 2015
537 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal …
Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests
Alternative Ontologies for Future Hospitalities
Av S. Veijola, J. Germann Molz m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to manage sustainability or tidy up tourist situations, the authors embrace the messiness of human relations and argue for more creative, embodied and …
Careers in Serious Leisure
From Dabbler to Devotee in Search of Fulfilment
Av R. Stebbins
Häftad, 2014
1098 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. This career begins with an interest in a serious pursuit, leading to an efflorescence many years later in amateurism, hobbyism, volunteering, or …
Heavy Metal Studies and Popular Culture
Av Gabby Riches, Dave Snell m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1272 kr
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Elaborating on themes of resilience, memory, critique and metal beyond metal, this volume highlights how the development and future of metal music scholarship is predicated on the engagement with other forms of popular culture such as comics, documentaries, and popular music. Drawing from a range …
Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives
Ghosts & Glamour
Häftad, 2020
280 kr
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This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the gendered and classed contexts of these …
Creativity in the Recording Studio
Alternative Takes
Inbunden, 2019
1018 kr
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Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making. Side A illustrates how creativity arises out of a system in action, and introduces the history, culture, traditions and institutions that contribute to the process of commercial record …
Sounds and the City
Volume 2
Av Brett Lashua, Stephen Wagg m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
966 kr
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This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places, and shifting social relations, …
Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World
Av Anju Beniwal, Rashmi Jain m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1102 kr
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This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.Unlike any other collection on leisure …
Time, Freedom and the Self
The Cultural Construction of “Free” Time
Inbunden, 2019
1070 kr
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While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise examines not only what people do in …
Cosplay and the Art of Play
Exploring Sub-Culture Through Art
Av Garry Crawford, David Hancock
Inbunden, 2019
852 kr
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This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances. Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the innovative use of arts-led research, this book adds to our …
