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Leisure Theory

Principles and Practice

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  • © 2005

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  1. Chris Rojek
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 1-16

  3. Narrating Leisure

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 17-48

  4. Action Analysis

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 49-79

  5. Primary Functions

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 80-109

  6. Coding and Representation

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 110-124

  7. The Life Course and Generations

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 125-133

  8. Power and Leisure

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 134-145

  9. Regulative Mechanisms

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 146-169

  10. Location Principles

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 170-187

  11. Central Problems

    • Chris Rojek
    Pages 188-221

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 222-243
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About this book

Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure. It demonstrates how power relations influence leisure choices and introduces students to the primary functions and regulative mechanisms of leisure, providing a thought provoking account of the central problems confronting students of leisure today. Written with the needs of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in mind, the book will quickly be recognized as the bible for Leisure Theory.

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' It is the first book I have read that systematically integrates the study of leisure within the general historical and theoretical framework of the human sciences. As such, it should find its proper place as one of the fundamentals of the study of leisure. Every serious student or faculty member in leisure studies, tourism studies and related fields ( e.g. hospitality) will want to read this book' - Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis, USA

About the author

CHRIS ROJEK is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of many books the most recent of which are Celebrity, Stuart Hall, and Frank Sinatra. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure Studies.

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