A Handbook of Leisure Studies

1. Introduction: Process and Content
Chris Rojek, Susan M. Shaw, A. J. Veal

Part 1. Origins

2. Leisure, Culture and Civilization
Chris Rojek

3. Anthropology/Pre-history of Leisure
Garry Chick

4. The History of Western Leisure
Benjamin K. Hunnicutt

5. Non-Western Traditions: Leisure in India
Kumkum Bhattacharya

Part 2. Key Disciplines

6. Sociology and Cultural Studies
Hugo Poel

7. Psychology and Social Psychology and the Study of Leisure
Roger C. Mannell, Douglas A. Kleiber, Marianne Staempfli

8. Geographies of Leisure
David Crouch

9. Economics of Leisure
A. J. Veal

10. The Duality of Leisure Policy
Fred Coalter

Part 3. Axial Principles

11. Leisure and Time
Jiri Zuzanek

12. Overturning the Modernist Predictions: Recent Trends in Work and Leisure in the OECD
Juliet B. Schor

13. Leisure and Gender: Challenges and Opportunities for Feminist Research
Karla A. Henderson, Susan M. Shaw

14. Leisure and Ageing
Yvonne Harahousou

15. Race and Leisure
Valeria J. Freysinger, Othello Harris

16. A Touch of Class
Chas Critcher

17. Leisure and Subculture
Chris Jenks

18. Leisure and Consumption
Daniel Thomas Cook

19. Leisure, Mass Communications and Media
David Rowe

Part 4. Leisure Forms and Settings

20. Sport and Sport Studies
Susan Birrell

21. The Arts and Entertainment: Situating Leisure in the Creative Economy
Deborah Stevenson

22. Outdoor Recreation
John M. Jenkins, John J. Pigram

23. Tourism
Adrian Franklin

24. Eating Out and the Appetite for Leisure
Joanne Finkelstein, Rob Lynch

25. Family Leisure
Maureen Harrington

26. Leisure and Education
Atara Sivan

27. Serious Leisure
Robert A. Stebbins

Part 5. Indexical Themes

28. Representation
Chris Rojek

29. Identity
Chris Rojek

30. The concept of praxis Cultural Studies and the Leisure Industries
Chris Barker

31. Articulation
David Harris

32. Community
Alison Pedlar, Lawrence Haworth

33. Resistance
Susan M. Shaw

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Services, Popular Science in Sports, Cultural Heritage, Anthropology