Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of... Lees meer

Sounds and the City

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local... Lees meer

Disruptive Tourism and Its Untidy Guests

S Veijola, J Germann Molz, Olli Pyyhtinen, E Hockert, Alexander Grit

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book invokes the radical potentialities of 'untidiness' to envision alternative arrangements of social life and hospitality. Instead of trying to... Lees meer

Pondering Everyday Life

Robert A Stebbins

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This pivot provides a conceptual statement of an approach to understanding the interrelationships of work, leisure, and "chore" activities in daily li... Lees meer

Sounds and the City

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experien... Lees meer

Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles

Udo Merkel

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international schola... Lees meer

An Ethnography of Urban Exploration

Kevin P Bingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring huma... Lees meer

Whiteness and Leisure

K Spracklen

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive ... Lees meer

Childhoods & Leisure

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary scholarship on children's everyday leisure from across the globe, addressing key questions around... Lees meer

Leisure in Later Life

Tania Wiseman

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are m... Lees meer

Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. Examines the sexless phenomenon among couples in contemporary ... Lees meer

Leisure's Legacy

Robert A Stebbins

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Provides a critical engagement with the common sense view of leisure Conceptualises the "popular image" of leisure as a kind of stereotype, while high... Lees meer

Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood

Catherine Hoad

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural signifi... Lees meer

Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives

Samantha Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Focuses on emotions and connections to understand how vintage fans live with their belongings Examines gender and embodiment as played out through an ... Lees meer

Careers in Serious Leisure

R Stebbins

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Using the concept of fulfilment and the framework of the serious leisure perspective, this book examines the signposts marking the fulfilment career. ... Lees meer

Cosplay and the Art of Play

Garry Crawford, David Hancock

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, id... Lees meer

The Meaning of Leisure

Vania L Sandoval

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book deals with the concept of leisure and the everyday leisure practices of a group of diverse single women in an urban setting--Mannheim, Germa... Lees meer

Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of... Lees meer

Football Fans and Social Spacing

Ian Woolsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters' attempts to control social space... Lees meer

Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment

Lise Kjølsrød

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena. Whe... Lees meer

Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

Maddie Breeze

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book explores seriousness in practice in the unique sports context of contemporary women's flat track roller derby. The author presents a stimula... Lees meer

Leisure, Health and Well-Being

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions. Contributors to this edited volume explore the p... Lees meer

Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy

O Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries that revolutionized the way w... Lees meer

Cosplay and the Art of Play

Garry Crawford, David Hancock

• Paperback | Engels | Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, id... Lees meer