| Title:
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THE NEW POLITICS OF LEISURE AND PLEASURE
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| By: |
Peter Bramham (Editor), Stephen Wagg (Editor) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£70.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230299970 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230299979 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 2010 |
| Description: |
This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship. |
| Synopsis: |
This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties -- fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left behind. In their leisure lives -- whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside -- people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished? |
| Illustrations: |
2 black & white tables |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |