The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0230216846 ISBN 13: 9780230216846

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Riassunto

This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties – fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left behind. In their leisure lives – whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside – people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished?

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Descrizione del libro:

This book explores the new cultural politics of leisure and pleasure including sex, gambling, comedy, popular music, reading, the internet, drinking, drugs, tourism, television, sport and censorship

L'autore:

PETER BRAMHAM is Visiting Research Fellow in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His publications includeUnderstanding Leisure (co-authored), A Sociology of Leisure: A Reader (co-edited),Leisure and the Urban Process (co-edited) and Leisure Policies in Europe (co-edited). His most recent book isSport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City, edited with Stephen Wagg.

STEPHEN WAGG is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of comedy, as well the politics of sport and of childhood. His publications includeBecause I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference (edited).

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230216846
• ISBN 13: 9780230216846
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Redattore: Bramham P., Wagg S.