Description: Decentring Leisure : Rethinking Leisure Theory, Hardcover by Rojek, Chris, ISBN 0803988125, ISBN-13 9780803988125, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: Decentring Leisure : Rethinking Leisure Theory
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Decentring Leisure Vol. 35 : Rethinking Leisure Theory
Language: English
Publisher: SAGE Publications, The Limited
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Adult & Continuing Education, General
Publication Year: 1995
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Chris Rojek
Subject Area: Social Science, Education
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
Format: Hardcover
