Histories Of Leisure
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| Author | : Rudy Koshar |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2002-04-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1845205448 |
In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and expectations, its scope and variability, still remains largely a matter of conjecture. One message that has emerged from a multiplicity of disciplines is that research on leisure and consumption opens up a hitherto untapped mine of information on the broader issues of politics, society, culture and economics. How have leisure regimes in Europe evolved since the eighteenth century? Why has leisure culture crystallized around particular practices, sites and objects? Above all, what sorts of connections and meanings have been inscribed in leisure practices, and how might these be compared across time and space? This book is the first to provide an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: travel, entertainment, sports, fashion, 'taste' and much more. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to know more about European history and culture or simply how people spent their free time before the age of television and the internet.
| Author | : C. Rojek |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2006-06-20 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 0230625185 |
A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.
| Author | : Jay Sanford Shivers |
| Publisher | : Human Kinetics Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : |
Not only is The Story of Leisure an outstanding textbook; it's also an enjoyable read for recreational specialists, sport historians, and sport sociologists.
| Author | : Daniel D. McLean |
| Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Learning |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780763707569 |
Dr. Jan Louise Jones, Southern Connecticut State University --Book Jacket.
| Author | : A. J. Veal |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2020-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780367519933 |
This critical and empirically-rich book documents and analyses the rise and fall of the leisure society idea, examines its role in the study of leisure, and assesses its relevance to the challenges facing global society in the 21st Century.
| Author | : Lawrence Culver |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 331 |
| Release | : 2010-09-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199779686 |
Southern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals how this region did much more than just create lavish resorts like Santa Catalina Island and Palm Springs--it literally remade American attitudes towards leisure. Lawrence Culver shows how this "culture of leisure" gradually took hold with an increasingly broad group of Americans, and ultimately manifested itself in suburban developments throughout the Sunbelt and across the United States. He further shows that as Southern Californians promoted resort-style living, they also encouraged people to turn inward, away from public spaces and toward their private homes and communities. Impressively researched, a fascinating and lively read, this finely nuanced history connects Southern Californian recreation and leisure to larger historical themes, including regional development, architecture and urban planning, race relations, Indian policy, politics, suburbanization, and changing perceptions of nature.
| Author | : Payal Arora |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2014-06-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1317678923 |
There is much excitement about Web 2.0 as an unprecedented, novel, community-building space for experiencing, producing, and consuming leisure, particularly through social network sites. What is needed is a perspective that is invested in neither a utopian or dystopian posture but sees historical continuity to this cyberleisure geography. This book investigates the digital public sphere by drawing parallels to another leisure space that shares its rhetoric of being open, democratic, and free for all: the urban park. It makes the case that the history and politics of public parks as an urban commons provides fresh insight into contemporary debates on corporatization, democratization and privatization of the digital commons. This book takes the reader on a metaphorical journey through multiple forms of public parks such as Protest Parks, Walled Gardens, Corporate Parks, Fantasy Parks, and Global Parks, addressing issues such as virtual activism, online privacy/surveillance, digital labor, branding, and globalization of digital networks. Ranging from the 19th century British factory garden to Tokyo Disneyland, this book offers numerous spatial metaphors to bring to life aspects of new media spaces. Readers looking for an interdisciplinary, historical and spatial approach to staid Web 2.0 discourses will undoubtedly benefit from this text.
| Author | : Andrew Grant Wood |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 149621322X |
The essays in this collection explore the history of tourism and its promotion and development throughout Latin American and the Caribbean in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Rudy Dunlap |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2021-11-24 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 1000481158 |
This book explores entanglements between politics and leisure, ranging from the electorate’s concerns with public recreation resources, to the presence of politics in casual conversation, and to the use of leisure as a means of preserving racial hierarchies in society. In noting the contributions of past scholarship, it also points toward a trend of increasingly political leisure research, where research helps to unpack the multiple ways in which power suffuses the experience of leisure. A contrast between ‘being political’, on one hand, and the tribal politicization that characterizes much of contemporary social life, on the other hand, demonstrates that scholars and educators can and should be engaged in politically-oriented scholarship, while also building a more diverse and intellectually productive academy. This edited volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars interested in race, power, polarization, and the interrelationship between politics and leisure. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Leisure Sciences.
| Author | : Daniel McLean |
| Publisher | : Jones & Bartlett Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2014-02-18 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1449689574 |
With a new full-color design with perforated worksheets, the Tenth Edition of Kraus' Recreation and Leisure in Modern Society provides a detailed introduction to the history, developments, and current trends in leisure studies. It addresses contemporary issues facing the recreation and leisure profession and focuses on challenges and opportunities that impact the profession now as well as years from now. Extensive research into emerging trends helps support the text and provide insights into the future. Focusing on the ten different types of organizations --ranging from nonprofit community organizations and armed forces recreation to sports management and travel and tourism sponsors -- this classic text text is an invaluable resource for students considering a career in the recreation and leisure industry. New to the Tenth Edition: - Discusses how specific trends, such as dramatic shifts in population make-up, the impact of technology, and marketing affect leisure-service systems and the recreation and park professions. - Focus on the role of parks and recreation on the health and wellness of our communities as well as means to combat the obesity epidemic in North America. - Includes new case studies which allow students to apply knowledge of technology in leisure, identify the value and benefits of play, and recognize the changing family structures of our modern society.
