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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786816303321

Titolo

Mapping leisure across borders / / edited by Fabio Massimo Lo Verde, Ishwar Modi and Gianna Cappello

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4438-5957-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (515 p.)

Disciplina

306.4812

Soggetti

Leisure - Social aspects

Leisure - Sociological aspects

Leisure - Philosophy

Leisure - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Frames -- Part II. Leisure across media technologies -- Part III. Leisure across gender, age and ethnicity -- Part IV. Leisure across sport, body and emotion -- Part V. Leisure across legal and illegal -- Part VI. Leisure across individual and collective spheres, social stratification and public policies.

Sommario/riassunto

In current academic debates, leisure is increasingly defined as a discursive construction originating both from the specific meanings created by individuals, and the institutionalizing processes that legitimate certain experiences and their spatial-temporal conditions as ""leisure"". As a result of social construction and the different social conditions existing at a certain historical moment in different societies, the borders among the various aspects of leisure are becoming more and more blu...