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A Handbook of Leisure Studies

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Table of Contents

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Process and Content
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    Chapter 2 Leisure, Culture and Civilization
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    Chapter 3 Anthropology/Pre-history of Leisure
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    Chapter 4 The History of Western Leisure
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    Chapter 5 Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India
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    Chapter 6 Sociology and Cultural Studies
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    Chapter 7 Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure
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    Chapter 8 Geographies of Leisure
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    Chapter 9 Economics of Leisure
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    Chapter 10 The Duality of Leisure Policy
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    Chapter 11 Leisure and Time
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    Chapter 12 Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD
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    Chapter 13 Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research
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    Chapter 14 Leisure and Ageing
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    Chapter 15 Race and Leisure
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    Chapter 16 A Touch of Class
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    Chapter 17 Leisure and Subculture
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    Chapter 18 Leisure and Consumption
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    Chapter 19 Leisure, Mass Communications and Media
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    Chapter 20 Sport and Sport Studies
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    Chapter 21 The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy
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    Chapter 22 Outdoor Recreation
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    Chapter 23 Tourism
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    Chapter 24 Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure
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    Chapter 25 Family Leisure
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    Chapter 26 Leisure and Education
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    Chapter 27 Serious Leisure
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    Chapter 28 Representation
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    Chapter 29 Identity
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    Chapter 30 The concept of praxis Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries
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    Chapter 31 Articulation
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    Chapter 32 Community
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    Chapter 33 Resistance
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Title
A Handbook of Leisure Studies
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan UK, June 2006
DOI 10.1057/9780230625181
ISBNs
978-1-4039-0279-5, 978-0-230-62518-1
Editors

Rojek, Chris, Shaw, Susan M., Veal, A. J.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 3 3%
Chile 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 103 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 21%
Student > Master 19 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 11%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Professor 9 8%
Other 17 16%
Unknown 20 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 41%
Arts and Humanities 13 12%
Sports and Recreations 7 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 27 25%