The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure [electronic resource] /
Bramham, P.editor.
Wagg, S.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure; 1 Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations; 2 Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol Consumption, Past and Present; 3 Outdoor Recreation and the Environment; 4 Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure; 5 Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture; 6 Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk and Leisure; 7 States, Markets and New Media: The Contemporary Politics of Gambling; 8 Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work and Leisure
9 Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality10 'They Can't Stop Us Laughing';  Politics, Leisure and the Comedy Business; 11 Noughties Reading; 12 Sport and Lifestyle; 13 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in an Era of X Factor and Digital Pirates; 14 Doublethink: 'Deregulation', Censure and 'Adult-Sex' on Television; 15 Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sports—Sociological aspects.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Culture.
Cultural studies.
Popular works.
Sociology.
Sociology of Sport and Leisure.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural Studies.
Popular Science, general.
Sociology, general.