Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction
Part I: Key disciplines
	Chapter 1: Philosophy of leisure
	Chapter 2: The making of modern leisure: the British experience c.1850 to c.1960
	Chapter 3: Feminist Leisure Studies: origins, accomplishments and prospects
	Chapter 4: Psychology of leisure
	Chapter 5: Economics of leisure
	Chapter 6: Leisure management: moving with the times
	Chapter 7: Leisure policy: the example of sport
	Chapter 8: Research positions, postures and practices in Leisure Studies
Part II: Key thinkers
	Chapter 9: Theodor W. Adorno, the culture industry and leisure
	Chapter 10: The leisure class: from Veblen to Linder to MacCannell
	Chapter 11: Norbert Elias and Leisure Studies
	Chapter 12: Michel Foucault and leisure
	Chapter 13: Leisure at the end of modernity: Jürgen Habermas on the purpose of leisure
	Chapter 14: Chris Rojek
	Chapter 15: Two sociologists: Pierre Bourdieu and Zygmunt Bauman
	Chapter 16: What they did on their holidays: Virilio, Baudrillard, Leisure Studies and post-theory
Part III: Leisure as a socio-cultural phenomenon
	Chapter 17: Theorizing social class, culture and leisure
	Chapter 18: Leisure in culture
	Chapter 19: Racisms and the experiences of minorities in amateur football in the UK and Europe
	Chapter 20: Family leisure
	Chapter 21: Gendered freedoms and constraints for young women socializing in bars and clubs
	Chapter 22: Leisure and the life course
	Chapter 23: Lifestyle and leisure theory
	Chapter 24: The leisured nature of tourism: a sociological critique
Part IV: The Big Seven leisure pursuits
	Chapter 25: The annual holiday: its rise, transformations, expansion and fragmentation
	Chapter 26: The demon drink: alcohol and moral regulation, past and present
	Chapter 27: From the back street to the high street: commercial gambling and the commodification of chance
	Chapter 28: Leisure sex: more sex! Better sex! Sex is fucking brilliant! Sex, sex, sex, SEX
	Chapter 29: Television and cultural citizenship
	Chapter 30: Recreational drug use and the club scene
	Chapter 31: How shopping changed leisure
Part V: Uses of leisure
	Chapter 32: Abnormal leisure and normalization
	Chapter 33: Behind the net-curtain: home-based work and leisure spaces
	Chapter 34: Consumerism as shaped by the pursuit of leisure
	Chapter 35: Leisure and higher education
	Chapter 36: Leisure, national identity and celebrating national difference
	Chapter 37: Social capitalism and leisure policy reconsidered
	Chapter 38: Serious leisure: the case of groundhopping
	Chapter 39: Volunteering as leisure, leisure as volunteering
	Chapter 40: Yin and Yang: the relationship of leisure and work
Part VI: New directions
	Chapter 41: Cultural tourism
	Chapter 42: Event Management
	Chapter 43: Extreme leisure: the case of extreme sporting activities
	Chapter 44: Leisure, community, and politics
	Chapter 45: Ethnicity, racism and the real social value of sport
	Chapter 46: The labour of leisure reconsidered
	Chapter 47: Virtual leisure
	Chapter 48: Youth culture, leisure and lifestyle: from subcultures to post-subcultures
	Chapter 49: The meaning of liquid leisure
Index