Shaun Best 
Leisure Studies 
Themes and Perspectives

What is the place of leisure in societies where people complain of ′over-work′? How do personal freedom and choice relate to the inequalities of class, gender, disability and ethnicity?

 

This critical introduction to the field offers a systematic account of the meaning and structure of leisure today.

 

The book:

 

• situates the student in the field

• provides a comprehensive account of the leading approaches to leisure

• explores the influence of class, race, gender, ethnicity, disability and age

• discusses to role of the sate

• examines leisure in the context of changing work relationships

• locates leisure in the debate around globalization

 

In short, this is an indispensable, one-stop guide to understanding leisure.

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What is the Leisure Experience?

Socio-Economic and Cultural Approaches to Leisure

Participation and Constraint – Class and Gender

Participation and Constraint – Ethnicity, Disability and Age

The Emergence of an Institutional Framework for Leisure

The UK′s Contemporary Institutional Framework for Leisure

The Local State and Leisure Provision in the United Kingdom

Work and Leisure – Post Fordism and the Changing Nature of Work

Work and Leisure: the Leisure Society, Unemployment and Post-Work

Globalisation and Leisure: the Consumer Society

Globalisation and Leisure: Mc Disneyization and Post-Tourism

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Shaun Best is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Manchester, and author of Understanding Social Divisions, (2005) and A Beginner′s Guide to Social Theory (2003, both SAGE).