The Discipline of Leisure : : Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation' / / ed. by Tamara Kohn, Simon Coleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Carter, Thomas F.,; Coleman, Simon,; Dyck, Noel,; Kane, Maurice J.,; Kohn, Tamara,; Kuppinger, Petra,; Marvin, Garry,; Rapport, Nigel,; Tucker, Hazel,; Waldren, Jacqueline,
• HerausgeberIn: Coleman, Simon,; Kohn, Tamara,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Social Identities ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; 1 THE DISCIPLINE OF LEISURE: TAKING PLAY SERIOUSLY --; PART I SURVEYING THE SELF --; 2 BOB, HOSPITAL BODYBUILDER: THE INTEGRITY OF THE BODY, THE TRANSITIVENESS OF ‘WORK’ AND ‘LEISURE’ --; 3 OF METAPHORS AND MUSCLES: PROTESTANT ‘PLAY’ IN THE DISCIPLINING OF THE SELF --; PART II TEMPORALITIES OF LEISURE --; 4 AN ADVENTURE TOURIST EXPERIENCE --; 5 REFRAMING PLACE, TIME AND EXPERIENCE: LEISURE AND ILLUSION IN MALLORCA --; PART III ENACTING NATIONALITY --; 6 ANIMAL AND HUMAN BODIES IN THE LANDSCAPES OF ENGLISH FOXHUNTING --; 7 PLAYING LIKE CANADIANS: IMPROVISING NATION AND IDENTITY THROUGH SPORT --; 8 A RELAXED STATE OF AFFAIRS?: ON LEISURE, TOURISM, AND CUBAN IDENTITY --; PART IV TRANSCENDING THE NATION --; 9 STAGED DISCIPLINE AS LEISURE: NOTES ON COLONIAL SOCIABILITY IN CAIRO --; 10 BOWING ONTO THE MAT: DISCOURSES OF CHANGE THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS PRACTICE --; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450395; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450395
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Tamara Kohn, Simon Coleman.

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.