Overview
- Editors:
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Peter Bramham
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Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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Stephen Wagg
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Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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- Peter Bramham, Stephen Wagg
Pages 1-10
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- Neil Ravenscroft, Paul Gilchrist
Pages 45-62
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- Philip Drake, Richard Haynes
Pages 63-81
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- Jackie West, Terry Austrin
Pages 119-135
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- Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan
Pages 153-168
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- Peter Bramham, Stephen Wagg
Pages 268-269
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Back Matter
Pages 270-280
About this book
This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.
About the editors
FEONA ATTWOOD is Principal Lecturer in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK
TERRY AUSTRIN is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand
SHANE BLACKMAN is Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
CHAS CRITCHER is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Swansea, UK
PHILIP DRAKE is Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland, UK
PAUL GILCHRIST is a Research Fellow in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton, UK
RICHARD HAYNES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at Stirling University, UK and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute
JOHN HORNE is Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK
BRETT LASHUA lectures in Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
NICOLE MATTHEWS lectures in Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia
ANDY MIAH is Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland, UK
NIGEL MORGAN is Professor of Tourism Studies at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK
JULIAN PETLEY is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University in London, UK
ANNETTE PRITCHARD is Professor and Director of Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales InstituteCardiff, UK
NEIL RAVENSCROFT is Professor of Land Economy at the University of Brighton, UK
JACKIE WEST teaches in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University, UK
