Landscapes of leisure : space, place and identities / Sean Gammon, senior lecturer, The University of Central Lancashire, UK, Sam Elkington, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University, UK.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reading landscapes: articulating a non-essentialist representation of space, place and identity in leisure / Sam Elkington and Sean Gammon -- Unravelling space and landscape in leisure's identities / David Crouch -- Disturbance and complexity in urban places: the everyday aesthetics of leisure / Sam Elkington -- The social dynamics of space constructions and leisure lifestyles / Ana Paula C. Pereira and Jonathan Long -- Zombie places? pop up leisure and re-animated urban landscapes / Brett D. Lashua -- Last resting places? recreational spaces or thanatourism attractions - the future of historic cemeteries and churchyards in Europe / Tony Seaton with Magda North and Gabriela Gajda -- Animating public space / Troy D. Glover -- Sport tourism finding its place? / Sean Gammon -- Youth leisure, places, spaces and identity / Joan Abbott-Chapman and Margaret Robertson -- Phenomenology and extreme sports in natural landscapes / Eric Brymer and Robert D. Schweitzer -- Seasideness: sense of place at a seaside resort / David Jarratt -- Savouring leisure spaces / Jaime L. Kurtz and Erik Simmons -- Weaving place meanings into outdoor recreation sustainability: the case of the Niagara Glen / Garrett Hutson and Ryan Howard -- Distant at your leisure: consuming distance as a leisure experience / Gunvor Riber Larsen -- The lure of the countryside: the spiritual dimension of rural spaces of leisure / Deborah Jepson -- Performing leisure, making place: wilderness identity and representation in online trip reports / Daniel R. Williams and Joseph G. Champ.

"The leisure landscape is a complex and diverse one that is both natural and built, dark and light, safe and dangerous, contained or without boundary, and profoundly influences the manner in which leisure is performed and experienced. These leisurescapes are increasingly becoming significant sites for the construction of individual and shared frameworks in which people orient themselves and act in a wider society. Drawing on international contributions by leading researchers in the field, this collection aims to map out the complex relationship that leisure has with place. A key element of the volume will be to illustrate the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, and by doing so offer, for the first time, a more rounded and inclusive approach to the study of leisure and place. It also aims to explore and elucidate the extent to which leisure places and spaces form, affect and influence personal, social and collective identities"--Back cover.