This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.
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Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
Publication Date: 03 Dec 2010
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780230216839
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FEONA ATTWOOD is Principal Lecturer in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University UK TERRY AUSTRIN is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand SHANE BLACKMAN is Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University UK CHAS CRITCHER is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Swansea UK PHILIP DRAKE is Lecturer in the Department of Film Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland UK PAUL GILCHRIST is a Research Fellow in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton UK RICHARD HAYNES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film Media and Journalism at Stirling University UK and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute JOHN HORNE is Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire UK BRETT LASHUA lectures in Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University UK NICOLE MATTHEWS lectures in Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University Australia ANDY MIAH is Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland UK NIGEL MORGAN is Professor of Tourism Studies at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff UK JULIAN PETLEY is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University in London UK ANNETTE PRITCHARD is Professor and Director of Welsh Centre for Tourism Research University of Wales InstituteCardiff UK NEIL RAVENSCROFT is Professor of Land Economy at the University of Brighton UK JACKIE WEST teaches in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University UK