Overview
- Highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory
- Explores the impact of globalization on leisure and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, local and virtual leisure spaces
- Offers a strong focus on leisure as a form of popular culture
Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Local Leisure: Meaning and Resistance
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Virtual Leisure and Pop Culture
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Global Leisure and Responses
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About this book
This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.
Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Anju Beniwal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Govt Meera Girls College, India. Her areas of specialisation include tribal welfare, rural development, women’s issues and leisure studies.
Rashmi Jain is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Director of the UGC Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of Rajasthan, India. She has an interest in the area of Leisure Studies, Development Communication, Gender studies, and Sociology of Law.
Karl Spracklen is Professor of Music, Leisure and Culture at Leeds Beckett University, UK and the author of over ninety books, papers and book chapters on leisure. He is the Secretary of Research Committee 13 (Sociology of Leisure) of the International Sociological Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World
Editors: Anju Beniwal, Rashmi Jain, Karl Spracklen
Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70975-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70974-1Published: 20 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10004-9Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70975-8Published: 06 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 313
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social Theory, Sociology of Culture, Globalization