Overview
- Includes contributions by major scholars of the sociology of leisure
- Provides historical and contemporary perspectives on leisure practices
- Provides a unique comparative lens to the understanding of leisure across time and space
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (17 chapters)
-
Australia
-
Asia
-
Africa
Keywords
- leisure in traditional Chinese culture
- leisure in post-apartheid South Africa
- colonial cinema
- mass media and colonial government
- gender and leisure
- leisure and social class
- leisure satisfaction
- globalization of leisure
- corroborree
- popularity of the radio
- private television sets
- non-Western understanding of leisure
- public leisure events in history
- urban recreation
- beach culture
- sport and leisure
- popular literature
- professional entertainment
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Teus J. Kamphorst was Director of the WLRA International Centre of Excellence (WICE) in the Netherlands which has produced several students of eminence in the field of leisure, tourism and environment.He was also the President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure of the International Sociological Association.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Leisure
Book Subtitle: Studies from Australia, Asia and Africa
Editors: Ishwar Modi, Teus J. Kamphorst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3632-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3631-6Published: 15 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9926-7Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3632-3Published: 06 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 309
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Positive Psychology, Popular Culture