Gebundenes Buch

Landscapes of Leisure

Space, Place and Identities

Herausgegeben: Gammon, Sean; Elkington, Sam

Beschreibung

This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.

Autor

Sean Gammon is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has been actively researching in the area of sport tourism for three decades; primarily focusing on sport tourist customer motivation, and nostalgia and heritage. He is co-editor, with Sam Elkington, of Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure (2014). Sam Elkington is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Northumbria University, UK. Sam's research reflects his interests in philosophical and social psychological dimensions of space and place, as well as theorising various aspects of the Serious Leisure Perspective. He is co-author of The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction (with Robert Stebbins, 2014).

Produktdetails

• Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-42852-3
• 2015 edition
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 409g
• ISBN-13: 9781137428523
• ISBN-10: 113742852X
• Artikelnr.: 42364438

Rezensionen

"This book on space, place, and landscape covers considerable new ground in the under-studied area of space and leisure. Here space and place are linked in the over-arching framework of landscape, where the first two are sometimes disconnected and incompatible and other times well-linked in notable harmony. Today's spatial landscape is protean, a product of the contemporary world of rapid change occurring over vast geographic areas. These chapters look into the uncertainties, complexities, and disturbances of the modern landscape to produce a major advance in non-essentialist thinking about space-related leisure."

- Professor Robert Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada