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

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 m...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
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Anno di pubblicazione:2008
Lingua:English
Serie:Social Identities ; 4
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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
Riassunto: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.
Natura:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9780857450395
DOI:10.1515/9780857450395
Accesso:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Simon Coleman, Tamara Kohn.