Description: Decentring Leisure : Rethinking Leisure Theory, Hardcover by Rojek, Chris, ISBN 0803988125, ISBN-13 9780803988125, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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: Rethinking Leisure Theory
Language: English
Publisher: SAGE Publications LTD
Item Height: 234 mm
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 1995
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 550 g
Subject Area: Sociology of Sport
Author: Chris Rojek
Item Width: 156 mm
Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Format: Hardcover
