The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, spor
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The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
Also by Peter Bramham HOW STAFF RULE: Structures of Authority in Two Community Schools UNDERSTANDING LEISURE (co-authored) LEISURE AND URBAN PROCESSES (co-edited) LEISURE POLICIES IN EUROPE (co-edited) LEISURE RESEARCH IN EUROPE (co-edited) SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE: A Reader (co-edited) SPORTS DEVELOPMENT: Policy, Process and Practice (co-edited) SPORT, LEISURE AND CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN CITY (co-edited)
Also by Stephen Wagg THE SOCIAL FACES OF HUMOUR (co-edited) BECAUSE I TELL A JOKE OR TWO: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference (edited) BRITISH FOOTBALL AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION (edited) CRICKET AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN THE POST-COLONIAL ERA: Following On (edited) EAST PLAYS WEST: Essays on Sport and the Cold War (co-edited) AMATEURISM IN BRITISH SPORT: It Matters Not Who Won or Lost? (co-edited) KEY CONCEPTS IN SPORT STUDIES (co-authored) SPORT, LEISURE AND CULTURE IN THE POSTMODERN CITY (co-edited)
The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure Edited By Peter Bramham Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
and Stephen Wagg Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Selection and editorial matter © Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg 2011 Individual chapters © their respective authors 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-21683-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries
ISBN 978-0-230-21684-6 DOI 10.1057/9780230299979
ISBN 978-0-230-29997-9 (eBook)
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