This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet,reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship. PETER BRAMHAM is Visiting Research Fellow in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His publications include 'Understanding Leisure' (co-authored), 'A Sociology of Leisure: A Reader' (co-edited), 'Leisure and the Urban Pr'ocess (co-edited) and 'Leisure Policies in Europe' (co-edited). His most recent book is 'Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City', edited with Stephen Wagg. . STEPHEN WAGG is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty ofLeeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of comedy, as well the politics of sport and of childhood. His publications include 'Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference '(edited). INDICE: Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure; 'P.Bramham '&' S.Wagg - 'Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations; 'P.Bramham' - Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol Consumption, Past and Present; 'C.Critcher - 'Outdoor Recreation and the Environment; 'N.Ravenscroft '&' P.Gilchrist - 'Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure; 'P.Drake '&' R.Haynes - 'Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New LeisureCulture; 'F.Attwood - 'Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk andLeisure; 'S.Blackman' - States, Markets and New Media: the Contemporary Politics of Gambling; 'J.West '&' T.Austrin - 'Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work andLeisure; 'A.Miah' - Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality; 'A.Pritchard '&' N.Morgan - ''They Can't Stop Us Laughing': Politics, Leisure and the Comedy Business;' S.Wagg - 'Noughties Reading; 'N.Matthews - 'Sport and Lifestyle; 'J.Horne' - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in an Era of X Factor and Digital Pirates; 'B.Lashua - 'Doublethink: The Confused and Contradictory Politics of Television Censorship in Britain; 'J.Petley' - Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure; 'P.Bramham '&' S.Wagg
- ISBN: 978-0-230-21683-9
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 03/12/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido