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  • RE-IMAGINING LEISURE STUDIES
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of society, including a plurality of new leisure worlds, and traditional concepts of Leisure Studies fail to capture this richness. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing and un...

    $1,420.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LEISURE STUDIES
    BLACKSHAW, TONY
    This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and examining Leisure St...

    $1,760.00

  • LEISURE
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to be resolved. After analyzing the rise and fall of...

    $1,320.00

  • THE SAGE DICTIONARY OF LEISURE STUDIES
    TONY BLACKSHAW / GARRY CRAWFORD
    What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field? This is the first full length Dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions. The Book: • Provides an unprecedented critical survey...

    $949.08

  • ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', ...

    $1,160.00

  • LEISURE LIFE
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group of working-class men - 'the lads' - Tony Blackshaw argues that traditional social collectivities such as class are being superseded. Instead, leisure life is now the central arena in which individuals assert their identities and confirm th...

    $1,840.00

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON SPORT AND 'DEVIANCE'
    TIM CRABBE / TONY BLACKSHAW
    The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In ...

    $1,600.00

  • INVISIBLE SEASIDES
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, past and present, to bear on how we understand contemporary seaside experience. Presenting a magical paradox of the modern seaside, t...

    $1,240.00

  • KEY CONCEPTS IN COMMUNITY STUDIES
    TONY BLACKSHAW
    "This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method." - Peter Bramham, Leeds Metropolitan University "I would highly recommend this book to any student who is s...

    $1,343.04