Télécharger le livre :  Seriousness and Women's Roller Derby

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-10-29
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-05-28
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles

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,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-02-10
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Careers in Serious Leisure

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,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-02
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Disruptive Tourism and its Untidy Guests

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-30
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-22
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Sounds and the City

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-05-27
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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Télécharger le livre :  Whiteness and Leisure

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...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-24
Collection : Leisure Studies in a Global Era
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