Leisure Studies

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-41166-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 1856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3416 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences

Edited by two leading scholars in the field, Leisure Studies is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. It is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Leisure Studies.

The origin of Leisure Studies is comparatively recent. The subject is largely a postwar development which began to unfold in the 1960s, initially in the USA and Europe. The subject area has continued to evolve internationally from a number of other disciplines and cognate areas—such as outdoor recreation, geography, history, economics, and sociology—and there has been a corresponding growth in Leisure Studies scholarship. Leisure Studies is now a vibrant and dynamic field of study and research, and the sheer scale of the growth in its output makes this collection especially timely. A wide range of social science journals have published leisure-related material and this Major Work makes available foundational pieces of scholarship—as well as cutting-edge research—from these disparate, and sometimes less accessible sources, as well as from the leading UK, European, and North American leisure journals, and from other publications, some of which are no longer in print.

As well as bringing together the key studies and journal articles that have shaped leisure thought, the collection is to be welcomed as the first mapping of an area that to date has lacked an interdisciplinary synthesis. The thematic organization of the collection, together with the editors’ introductions and their commentaries on the collected texts, makes sense of the wide range of approaches, theories, and concepts that have informed Leisure Studies, and reviews the history of the subject and the rise of its identity and research agenda. It is an essential collection destined to be valued as a vital research resource by all scholars and students of the subject.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Page, Stephen J.

Connell, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I: Disciplinary Contributions to the Evolution of Leisure Studies Part 1: Geography Part 2: History Part 3: Social Policy, Social Theory and Conceptualizations of Leisure Part 4: The Work-Leisure Debate Part 5: Leisure Theory and Lifestyle Part 6: The Economics and Psychology of Leisure Volume II: Leisure, Space and Place Part 7: The Home and Domestic Leisure Part 8: Urban Leisure and the Urban Environment Part 9: The Impact of Demand on Recreational Resources Volume III: Leisure, Participation and Society Part 10: Leisure Motivation Part 11: Constraints to Leisure Participation Part 12: Leisure, Time and Work: Implications for Participation Part 13: Social Groups, Leisure and Participation Volume IV: Managing Leisure Resources: Policy, Planning and Practice Part 14: Concepts and Tools for Managing Leisure Resources and Users Part 15: The Public Sector, Leisure Resources and their Management Part 16: Leisure and Consumers: Marketing and Management Issues Part 17: The Future of Leisure Studies and Leisure Research

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Page has been co-editor of the leading Tourism journal, Tourism Management (Elsevier), since 1996. He is the author, editor and co-editor/co-author of twenty books and helped Routledge set up their initial tourism list in the early 1990s prior to the move to Thomson Learning in 1995. He has taught and researched on leisure-related issues since 1987 and has experience of compiling a similar publication based on The Best of Tourism Management in 2000 (forty contributions). He holds the Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley Chair in Tourism at the University of Stirling. He has written three editions of our Geography of Tourism and Recreation.

Joanne Connell is Lecturer in Tourism and Co-ordinator of Leisure Studies at the University, with enrolments of up to 130 in the first-year course. She has taught and researched in this area since 1996 and has a PhD in the area. She has co-authored two editions of Tourism: A Modern Synthesis (Thomson Learning), which is about to appear as a full-colour text. This will be one of only three major international texts in the field (two of them in colour) and its comprehensive synthesis of the field illustrates a wider understanding of the needs of this project to provide a similar outcome. Her ability to signpost the literature is a complementary skill which she would bring to the project. She is also a leisure consultant and has worked for various clients, including VisitScotland and Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park (LLTNP). She was seconded to LLTNP to help them prepare their National Park Plan and so she has both academic and practitioner experience which will be invaluable for this project.
Stirling University, UK
Stirling University, UK