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Title Mapping leisure across borders / edited by Fabio Massimo Lo Verde, Ishwar Modi, and Gianna Cappello
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (515 pages)
Contents Part I. Frames -- Part II. Leisure across media technologies -- Part III. Leisure across gender, age and ethnicity -- Part IV. Leisure across sport, body and emotion -- Part V. Leisure across legal and illegal -- Part VI. Leisure across individual and collective spheres, social stratification and public policies
Summary In current academic debates, leisure is increasingly defined as a discursive construction originating both from the specific meanings created by individuals, and the institutionalizing processes that legitimate certain experiences and their spatial-temporal conditions as ""leisure"". As a result of social construction and the different social conditions existing at a certain historical moment in different societies, the borders among the various aspects of leisure are becoming more and more blu ..
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Subject Leisure -- History
Leisure.
leisure.
Sociology.
Sociology: sport & leisure.
Society & culture: general.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
Leisure
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Lo Verde, Fabio Massimo, 1965- editor.
Modi, Ishwar, 1940-2017, editor
Cappello, Gianna, editor.
ISBN 9781443859578
1443859575
1306711762
9781306711760
1443849723
9781443849722