Global Leisure And The Struggle For A Better World

Author : Anju Beniwal,Rashmi Jain,Karl Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783319709758

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Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World by Anju Beniwal,Rashmi Jain,Karl Spracklen Pdf

This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces. Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.

Author : Smaranda Spanu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030182595

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Heterotopia and Heritage Preservation by Smaranda Spanu Pdf

This book approaches the field of built heritage and its practices by employing the concept of heterotopia, established by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. The fundamental understandings of heritage, its evolution and practices all reveal intrinsic heterotopic features (the mirror function, its utopic drive, and its enclave-like nature). The book draws on previous interpretations of heterotopia and argues for a reading of heritage as heterotopia, considering various heritage mechanisms – heritage selection, conservation and protection practices, and heritage as mnemonic device – in this regard. Reworking the six heterotopic principles, an analysis grid is designed and applied to various built heritage spaces (vernacular, religious architecture, urban 19th century ensembles). Guided through this theoretical itinerary, the reader will rediscover the heterotopic lens as a minor, yet promising, Foucauldian device that allows for a better understanding of heritage and its everyday practices.

Author : Robert A. Stebbins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030480363

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The Serious Leisure Perspective by Robert A. Stebbins Pdf

The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) is a theoretic framework developed by Robert A. Stebbins in 1973, that brings together three main forms of leisure known as serious leisure, casual leisure, and project-based leisure. The SLP has evolved considerably since 1973, and this textbook provides a synthesis of the many concepts and propositions, as well as the data supporting them. In this overview, Stebbins organizes the entire framework along conceptual lines, with careful attention to level of empirical support and validation of each concept, presenting an up-to-date version of the SLP that allows interested students and researchers of social psychology, sociology, and leisure studies, to pinpoint exact elements of the theory, the empirical base and its application.

Author : Nicola De Martini Ugolotti,Jayne Caudwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000410716

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Leisure and Forced Migration by Nicola De Martini Ugolotti,Jayne Caudwell Pdf

This book offers a timely and critical exploration of leisure and forced migration from multiple disciplinary perspectives, spanning sociology, gender studies, migration studies and anthropology. It engages with perspectives and experiences that unsettle and oppose dehumanising and infantilising binaries surrounding forced migrants in contemporary society. The book presents cutting edge research addressing three inter-related themes: spaces and temporalities; displaced bodies and intersecting inequalities; voices, praxis and (self)representation. Drawing on and expanding critical leisure studies perspectives on class, gender, sexuality and race/ethnicity, the book spotlights leisure and how it can interrogate and challenge dominant narratives, practices and assumptions on forced migration and lives lived in asylum systems. Furthermore, it contributes to current debates on the scope, relevance and aims of leisure studies within the present, unfolding global scenario. This is an important resource for students and scholars across leisure, sport, gender, sociology, anthropology and migration studies. It is also a valuable read for practitioners, advocates and community organisers addressing issues of forced migration and sanctuary.

Author : Shintaro Kono,Anju Beniwal,Priyanka Baweja,Karl Spracklen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9783030418120

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Positive Sociology of Leisure by Shintaro Kono,Anju Beniwal,Priyanka Baweja,Karl Spracklen Pdf

This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness. Defined as an area of research that examines social aspects of leisure life with a focus on the optimal functioning of relationship, group, community, organization, and other social units, PSL differs from more critical forms of sociology in that its starting point is social positives. The contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds to consider various meanings of leisure across themes such as: ageing; sex, sexuality and family; community, youth, and education; and arts and creativity. Positive Sociology of Leisure will be a key reference within the field of sociology of leisure, as well as an important introductory book for those interested in leisure studies.

Author : Alpana Kateja,Rashmi Jain
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811642739

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Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India by Alpana Kateja,Rashmi Jain Pdf

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and environmental threats emanating from urbanization (e.g. climate change, health governance, energy issues, pollution, and e-waste management) and suggest various measures for dealing with the challenges of rapid urbanization. Offering a valuable resource for all those interested in understanding the multifaceted dimensions of urban growth, the book appeals to researchers, students, and policymakers, interested in the development studies and urban studies.

Author : Nicky van Es,Stijn Reijnders,Leonieke Bolderman,Abby Waysdorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000223873

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Locating Imagination in Popular Culture by Nicky van Es,Stijn Reijnders,Leonieke Bolderman,Abby Waysdorf Pdf

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which people’s favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism. This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan- and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies and cultural sociology.

Author : Manish K. Verma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000486391

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Environment and Sustainable Development by Manish K. Verma Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. With its case studies from across the world, including countries such as India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States, Croatia, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Kenya, it explores critical environmental issues concerning energy justice, queer ecology, mountain cultures, incarceration, energy strategies, mining tourism, pollution control mechanisms, social impacts of oil and gas production, contract farming, gender mainstreaming, climate change, and droughts and adaptation strategies along with literacy, leisure, well-being, development, sexuality, sustainability and environmental education. The book examines several dimensions within global environment of the adverse impact of developmental activities, discusses sustainable development activities undertaken in contemporary times, and underscores the importance of a just, people-centric policy framework in promoting sustainable development. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of environmental studies, development studies, sustainable development, political studies, sociology, and political economy. It will also interest policymakers, development practitioners, NGOs and think tanks working on environment and sustainable development, climate issues and SDGs.

Author : Charles Lindholm,José Pedro Zúquete
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804774222

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The Struggle for the World by Charles Lindholm,José Pedro Zúquete Pdf

What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity's homogenizing processes. This controversial book establishes fundamental similarities between anti-globalization "aurora" movements that aim to destroy the modern world and bring a radiant new dawn to humankind. While these groups often despise one another, they nonetheless share many fundamental characteristics, goals, and attitudes. Drawing on the original writings and actions of various anti-globalist groups, the authors reveal a common tendency toward charismatic leadership, good versus evil worldviews, the quest for authentic identity, concern with ritual, and unbending demands for total commitment. These movements, however they pursue world transformation and personal transcendence, are a prominent and continuing aspect of our present condition. This book is a strong reminder that, no matter what the cause, revolution is not a thing of the past and the fervent search for another world continues.

Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429656170

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Politics and Leisure by John Wilson Pdf

First published in 1988. This book provides a lucid and exceptionally well-informed account at the controversial relationship between politics and leisure. The author combines historical and sociological material to show the ways in which ‘leisure’ has often been a fiercely disputed battleground. Free time and free space have always posed a threat to political authorities, while providing room for experimentation and expression for the citizenry. This has led to extensive attempts at leisure regulation; John Wilson examines the purposes and effectiveness of such regulation in the fields of games sexuality, the mass media, and gambling. He is able to draw on evidence of leisure planning and policy from a wide variety of political regimes, from communist and socialist through social democrat to liberal, conservative, and fascist. The importance of the relationship between political forces and leisure, in subjects as disparate as the future of the Olympic games and the future of full employment, has rarely been so evident. John Wilson has provided an excellent guide to its intricacies.

Author : Irena Ateljevic,Annette Pritchard,Nigel Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136358609

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The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies by Irena Ateljevic,Annette Pritchard,Nigel Morgan Pdf

New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable ‘critical turn’ – a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and represent a coordinated effort of tourism scholars whose work engages innovative research methodologies. Since such work has been dispersed across a variety of tourism-related and other research fields, this book responds to a pressing need to consolidate recent advances in a single text. Adopting a broad definition of ‘criticality’, the contributors seek to find ‘fresh’ ways of theorising tourism by locating the phenomenon in its wider political, economic, cultural and social contexts. The collection addresses the power relations underpinning the production of academic knowledge; presents a range of qualitative data collection methods which confront the field’s dominant (post)positivist approaches; foregrounds the emotional dynamics of research relations and explores the personal, the political and the situated nature of research journeys. The book has been divided into two parts, with the essays in the first part establishing a context-specific framework for engaging philosophical and theoretical debates in contemporary tourism enquiry. The second set of essays then present, discuss and critique specific methodologies, research techniques, methods of interpretation and writing strategies, all of which are in some sense illustrative of ‘critical’ tourism research. Contributors range from postgraduate students to established academics and are drawn from both the geopolitical margins and the ‘powerbases’ of the tourism academy. Their various relationships with the English-speaking academy thus range from relative ‘outsider’ to well-positioned ‘insider’ and as a result, their essays are reflective of a range of locations within the complexly spun web of academic power relations and social divisions.

Author : Nate Garrelts,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476631240

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Responding to Call of Duty by Nate Garrelts,Matthew Wilhelm Kapell Pdf

Call of Duty is one of the most culturally significant video game franchises of the 21st century. Since the first game was released for PC in 2003, the first-person shooter has sold over 250 million copies across a range of platforms, along with merchandise ranging from toys and comic books to a special edition Jeep Wrangler. Top players can compete for millions in prize money in tournaments sanctioned by the Call of Duty World League. While the gaming community has reported on and debated each development, Call of Duty has received little scholarly attention. This collection of new essays examines the ideologically charged campaign mode of major franchise releases, with a special focus on militarism, realism and gender.

Author : Alice Pacher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811684647

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(No) Sex in Japan by Alice Pacher Pdf

This book presents a sociological perspective on (non-)sexual intimate relationships in contemporary Japan. The phenomenon of sexlessness in intimate relationships has gained increasing attention in popular culture. However, few scholarly investigations exist in examining this striking trend in Japan. This book presents an analysis of the socio-structural elements within both academic and public discourses in Japanese culture relating to sexlessness in intimate relationships. Drawing from original interview research, the author provides insights into individuals’ experiences and investigates the connection between sexual inactivity, sexuality and Japanese couples’ satisfaction and well-being in their relationships. The book discusses how work environment, childbirth, infertility treatments, as well as past sexual experiences, extramarital affairs, and both unmarried and married couple relationships influence individual sexual behavior and consciousness. A broad overview of the meaning of sexuality through a cultural comparison with discourses on sexuality and interview results in Germany and Austria is also provided. To this end, the book calls into question whether sexlessness is a unique Japanese phenomenon or whether parallels and similarities might also be found in Western societies. Bringing together academic and public discourses on sexless couples, this book engages a rethinking of the meaning of sexuality, love, intimacy and relationships, both in and outside of Japan. It is of interest to students and scholars of Japanese studies, gender, sexology and sociology.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026417087

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Barry Kanpol,Peter McLaren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313390043

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Critical Multiculturalism by Barry Kanpol,Peter McLaren Pdf

This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. While each author has his or her own specialty, the thread of shared dreams is portrayed in a call for solidarity. The separate viewpoints are drawn together to constitute a democratic platform for an enlightened critical education agenda. From narrative to critical ethnography, case studies explore the multicultural and power struggles of states, districts, and schools. Intimately connected to all contributions in this collection is the commitment of each author to similarly share a common pregnancy of intention within a language of possibility.