Leisure Myths And Mythmaking

Author : Brett Lashua,Simon Baker,Troy D. Glover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000785456

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This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an “absent presence” in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape people’s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate people’s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change. As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imagination—from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the “absent presence” of myths and mythmaking in leisure research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.

Author : Brett Lashua,Simon Baker,Troy D. Glover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000785500

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Leisure Myths and Mythmaking by Brett Lashua,Simon Baker,Troy D. Glover Pdf

This book centralizes powerful leisure stories that may otherwise be understood as myths—sometimes recognized, often less so—that circulate in the field of leisure studies and beyond. In everyday use, a myth perpetuates a popularly held belief that is false or untrue. However, in social and cultural theories, myths are more complex as partial truths that privilege particular versions of a shared social reality. We see myth as having an “absent presence” in leisure studies, and want to know what myths are, what they do, and how they circulate and shape people’s leisure lives. Myths can do more than obfuscate; they often animate people’s lives, motivate collective action, and inspire change. As the chapters in this edited volume explore in further detail, leisure myths and mythmaking involve complex relations in the gaps between reality and imagination—from the shared myths of musical legends to myths of placemaking and communities, as well as from origin myths of sport practices to fantasy and festivals, to the importance of storytelling as mythmaking in tourism. In different ways, each of these chapters alerts the readers to the “absent presence” of myths and mythmaking in leisure research. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Myth in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015013964286

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Shelley's Mythmaking by Harold Bloom Pdf

Author : Arch G. Woodside,Geoffrey I. Crouch,J. R. Brent Ritchie
Publisher : CABI
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851998968

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Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure by Arch G. Woodside,Geoffrey I. Crouch,J. R. Brent Ritchie Pdf

This book is based on papers given at the 2nd Symposium on Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure (CPTHL) in Vienna in July 2000. The Symposium comprised papers reflecting the progress in consumer psychology theory and research. The Vienna Symposium put special emphasis on consumer decision making for evaluating choice alternatives in tourism, leisure, and hospitality operations. The reports have been arranged into five major compartments.

Author : Dallen J. Timothy
Publisher : Channel View Publications
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781873150597

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Shopping Tourism, Retailing, and Leisure by Dallen J. Timothy Pdf

Features a broad analysis of the relationship between tourism, leisure shopping and retailing. Examines issues relating to consumption and identity in the context of tourism.

Author : Henry Alexander Murray
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Reference
ISBN : UVA:X000194582

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Myth and Mythmaking by Henry Alexander Murray Pdf

Author : Bart van der Steen,Thierry P.F. Verburgh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030419097

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Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory by Bart van der Steen,Thierry P.F. Verburgh Pdf

This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth subcultures.

Author : Richard N. Voase
Publisher : CABI
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851997643

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Tourism in Western Europe by Richard N. Voase Pdf

The last twenty years has seen a proliferation of the term "tourist destination." Improbable places, such as industrial cities and isolated rural environments have become legitimate places to visit. At the same time, traditional tourist destinations such as coastal resorts have declined inpopularity. There is a shift from "old" to "new" tourism. These case histories examine these issues. The book is divided into three sections, dealing with political, economic and sociocultural reasons for change.

Author : Graham Dann
Publisher : CABI
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0851997619

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The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World by Graham Dann Pdf

This book contains a selection of papers from the prestigious Research Committee on International Tourism presented at the World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Brisbane, Australia, July 2002. It provides a sociological and anthropological critique of existing tourism theory as well as some directions for its future development and research. While much of the present understanding of the tourist and tourism is grounded in metaphor (e.g. tourism as a sacred journey, tourism as play, the tourist as a child, etc.) such analogies need to be linked to transformations in tourism generating and receiving societies. Hence the focus on the tourist and everyday life, socio-psychological dimensions of the tourist experience, the tourist and conflicting expectations, and the tourist in a changing world.

Author : Edward L. Palmer,Brian M. Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135639747

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The Faces of Televisual Media by Edward L. Palmer,Brian M. Young Pdf

This collection offers original, state-of-the-art contributions from leading authorities in children's televisual media. International researchers from communication and psychology provide readers with ready access to current televisual research, trends, and policymaking/political climate issues pertaining to children. This second edition provides a current summary of studies on content, viewing patterns, comprehension, effects, and individual differences in instructional and educational programming, televisual entertainment and violence programming, and televisual advertising to children. Editors Edward L. Palmer and Brian M. Young have structured the volume into three sections examining the "faces" of television: the Teaching (instructional/educational) Face, the Violent Face, and the Selling (advertising) Face. Chapters within each section identify and focus recurrent themes while integrating them topically into a coherent whole. Each area incorporates new technologies and considers their potentials, effects, and future. Subjects featured in the various chapters include: *cross-cultural and historical comparisons with an in-depth perspective on the BBC and other European/Asian televisual media roots, as well as America's formative televisual media roots; *an examination of key differences between developed and developing countries; *implications of emerging instructional/educational media for children's education--addressing both cognitive and multi-ethnic aspects; and * prominent, informed challenge to the prevailing popular view that children are unaffected and unharmed by exposure to media violence. This volume informs ongoing debates across a broad spectrum of current, critical issues, and suggests avenues for future research. It is pertinent and provocative for the most sophisticated scholar in the field, as well as for students in areas of developmental or social psychology, communication, education, sociology, marketing, broadcasting and film, public policy, advertising, and medicine/pediatrics. It is also appropriate for courses in children, media, and society.

Author : Annette Pritchard
Publisher : CABI
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845932718

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Tourism and Gender by Annette Pritchard Pdf

While contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as passé, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculinist approaches. This collection of studies seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include the construction of narratives, how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience, the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality, and finally how travel and tourism allow for empowerment, resistance and carnivalesque opportunities.

Author : David S. Cunningham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780190888671

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Hearing Vocation Differently by David S. Cunningham Pdf

Many colleges and universities have begun using the language of vocation and calling to help undergraduates think about the future direction of their lives. This language is used in both secular and religious contexts, but it has deep roots in the Christian theological tradition. Given the increasingly multi-faith context of undergraduate life, many have asked whether this terminology can truly serve as a new vocabulary for higher education. If vocation is to find a foothold in the contemporary context, it will need to be re-examined, re-thought, and re-written; in short, higher education will need to undertake the project of hearing vocation differently. In this third volume on vocation from editor David S. Cunningham, the thirteen contributing scholars identify with a wide variety of religious traditions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism. Some contributors identify with more than one of these; others would claim none of them. The authors met on multiple occasions to read common texts, to discuss agreements and differences, and to respond to one another's writing; some of these responses are included at the end of each chapter. Both individually and collectively, these contributors expand the range of vocational reflection and discernment well beyond its traditional Christian origins. The authors observe that all undergraduate students--regardless of their academic field, religious background, or demographic identity-need to make space for reflection, to overcome obstacles to discernment, and to consider the significance of their own narratives, beliefs, and practices. This, in turn, will require college campuses to re-imagine their curricular and co-curricular programming in order to support their students's reflection on issues of meaning, purpose, and identity.

Author : Simon Coleman,Mike Crang
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780857457134

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Tourism by Simon Coleman,Mike Crang Pdf

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and performed engagement with places. The approach resonates with ideas in anthropology, sociology, and geography on performance, invented traditions, constructed places and traveling cultures. Contributions highlight the often contradictory, contested and paradoxical constructions of landscape and community involved both in tourist attractions and among tourists themselves. The collection examines many different practices, ranging from the energetic pursuit of adventure holidays to the reading of holiday brochures. It illustrates different techniques of seeing the landscape and a variety of ways of creating and performing the local. Chapters thus demonstrate the mutual entanglement of practices, images, conventions, and creativity. They chart these global flows of people, texts, images, and artefacts. Case studies are drawn from diverse types of tourism and destination focused around North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Author : William F. Theobald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136000829

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Global Tourism by William F. Theobald Pdf

The success of Global Tourism has led to this fully revised and updated second edition which retains all the strengths of the original book and is enhanced by the inclusion of five new chapters. This edition draws together the insights of thirty-three observers commonly concerned with the effects of tourism on comtemporary society.

Author : Martin Selby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786734488

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Understanding Urban Tourism by Martin Selby Pdf

Despite the formidable growth of urban tourism there has been little of the critical engagement that one would expect from the social sciences: the rich potential of contemporary social science for urban tourism has yet to be realized. Martin Selby's textbook makes available to practitioners and students seeking to understand the phenomenon of tourism in towns and cities the methods and concepts that are currently enhancing and transforming our understanding of society in other areas of the social sciences. With an emphasis on image, culture and experience, the author draws upon the "cultural turn" to explains the human aspects of the urban tourism phenomenon. The discussions emphasize the significance of urban tourism within debates upon the contemporary city, postmodernity and the pursuit of social science. Clearly written, with case studies and further reading, this book should be welcomed by students and lecturers in geography, tourism, planning and sociology.