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Decentring Leisure

Name: Decentring Leisure
Brand: SAGE Publications Ltd
SKU: 04715493
Price: 51.79 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Chris Rojek
ISBN: 9780803988132

Rethinking Leisure Theory

Chris Rojek

Language

English

Book Paperback

Libristo code: 04715493

Publishers SAGE Publications Ltd, March 1995

This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris... Full description

Libristo code: 04715493

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This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, 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 to living in a risk society, he shows that 'free' time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.