Leisure studies : themes and perspectives / Shaun Best.
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TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2010Description: 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412903858
- 9781412903851
- 1412903866
- 9781412903868
- 306.4812 22
- GV14.45 .B47 2010
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.4812 BES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A451332B |
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| 306.4812 ACC Access and inclusion in leisure and tourism / | 306.4812 AIT Leisure and tourism landscapes : social and cultural geographies / | 306.4812 ALT Alternative cultures and leisure : creating pathways for sustainable livelihoods / | 306.4812 BES Leisure studies : themes and perspectives / | 306.4812 CHI Children, families and leisure / | 306.4812 CRO A social history of leisure since 1600 / | 306.4812 DAV Serious leisure and nature : sustainable consumption in the outdoors / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 1. What is the Leisure Experience? -- 2. Socio-economic and Cultural Approaches to Leisure -- 3. Participation and Constraint - Class and Gender -- 4. Participation and Constraint - Ethnicity, Disability and Age -- 5. The Emergence of an Institutional Framework for Leisure -- 6. The UK's Contemporary Institutional Framework for Leisure -- 7. The Local State and Leisure Provision in the United Kingdom -- 8. Work and Leisure - Post-Fordism and the Changing Nature of Work -- 9. Work and leisure - the Leisure Society, Unemployment and Post-work -- 10. Globalisation and Leisure - The Consumer Society -- 11. Globalisation and leisure - McDisneyisation and Post-tourism -- Conclusion.
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