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Landscapes of Leisure

Space, Place and Identities

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Sean Gammon

    1. University of Central Lancashire, UK

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  2. Sam Elkington

    1. Northumbria University, UK

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Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Reading Landscapes: Articulating a Non-Essentialist Representation of Space, Place and Identity in Leisure

    • Sam Elkington, Sean Gammon
    Pages 1-7

  3. Unravelling Space and Landscape in Leisure’s Identities

    • David Crouch
    Pages 8-23

  4. Disturbance and Complexity in Urban Places: The Everyday Aesthetics of Leisure

    • Sam Elkington
    Pages 24-40

  5. The Social Dynamics of Space Constructions and Leisure Lifestyles

    • Ana Paula C. Pereira, Jonathan Long
    Pages 41-54

  6. Zombie Places? Pop Up Leisure and Re-Animated Urban Landscapes

    • Brett D. Lashua
    Pages 55-70

  7. Last Resting Places? Recreational Spaces or Thanatourism Attractions — the Future of Historic Cemeteries and Churchyards in Europe

    • Tony Seaton, Magda North, Gabriela Gajda
    Pages 71-95

  8. Animating Public Space

    • Troy D. Glover
    Pages 96-109

  9. Sport Tourism Finding Its Place?

    • Sean Gammon
    Pages 110-122

  10. Youth Leisure, Places, Spaces and Identity

    • Joan Abbott-Chapman, Margaret Robertson
    Pages 123-134

  11. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports in Natural Landscapes

    • Eric Brymer, Robert D. Schweitzer
    Pages 135-146

  12. Seasideness: Sense of Place at a Seaside Resort

    • David Jarratt
    Pages 147-163

  13. Savouring Leisure Spaces

    • Jaime L. Kurtz, Erik Simmons
    Pages 164-175

  14. Weaving Place Meanings into Outdoor Recreation Sustainability: The Case of the Niagara Glen

    • Garrett Hutson, Ryan Howard
    Pages 176-191

  15. Distant at Your Leisure: Consuming Distance as a Leisure Experience

    • Gunvor Riber Larsen
    Pages 192-201

  16. The Lure of the Countryside: The Spiritual Dimension of Rural Spaces of Leisure

    • Deborah Jepson
    Pages 202-219

  17. Performing Leisure, Making Place: Wilderness Identity and Representation in Online Trip Reports

    • Daniel R. Williams, Joseph G. Champ
    Pages 220-232

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 233-238
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About this book

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.

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"This book on space, place, and landscape covers considerable new ground in the under-studied area of space and leisure. Here space and place are linked in the over-arching framework of landscape, where the first two are sometimes disconnected and incompatible and other times well-linked in notable harmony. Today's spatial landscape is protean, a product of the contemporary world of rapid change occurring over vast geographic areas. These chapters look into the uncertainties, complexities, and disturbances of the modern landscape to produce a major advance in non-essentialist thinking about space-related leisure."

- Professor Robert Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Central Lancashire, UK

    Sean Gammon

  • Northumbria University, UK

    Sam Elkington

About the editors

Sean Gammon is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has been actively researching in the area of sport tourism for three decades; primarily focusing on sport tourist customer motivation, and nostalgia and heritage. He is co-editor, with Sam Elkington, of Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure (2014).

Sam Elkington is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Northumbria University, UK. Sam's research reflects his interests in philosophical and social psychological dimensions of space and place, as well as theorising various aspects of the Serious Leisure Perspective. He is co-author of The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction (with Robert Stebbins, 2014).

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