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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792462003321

Autore

Blackshaw Tony <1960-, >

Titolo

Leisure / / Tony Blackshaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-14676-4

1-135-14677-2

1-282-57005-6

9786612570056

0-203-85595-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Collana

Key Ideas ; ; v.v. 8

Disciplina

306.4812

790.1

Soggetti

Leisure

Recreation

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.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I FOUNDATIONS; 1 THE IDEA OF LEISURE; 2 THE USES OF LEISURE: THREE PERSPECTIVES; Part II LEISURE IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT; 3 THE ANTECEDENTS OF MODERN LEISURE; 4 ANALYSING LEISURE AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON; 5 LEISURE IN THE POSTMODERN IMAGINATION; Part III TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIQUID LEISURE; INTRODUCTION; 6 LEISURE AND CONSUMPTION: MCDONALDIZATION OR IKEAIZATION?; 7 THE AMBIVALENCE OF LEISURE; CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to be resolved. After analyzing the rise and fall of modern leisure patterns, the emphasis shifts from the historical to the sociological and the author identifies and critically discusses the key modernist and postmodernist perspectives. Drawing on the i