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Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory

By Chris Rojek

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
1995
ISBN
0803988125, 9780803988125
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (15008388 bytes)
Series
Theory, Culture & Society 35
Pages
224\224
Time added
2015-04-02 08:43:48

Description

This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional `centring' of leisure, on `escape', `freedom' and `choice'. He describes the relations between capitalism and leisure, the meaning of free time for workers in a capitalist system, and the gendered nature of leisure. He then discusses the social construction of leisure under modernity and the main competing arguments. Finally he examines postmodernity. Revealing how leisure practices have responded t

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