Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure TheorySAGE, 8 Mar 1995 - 215 sayfa This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional `centring' of leisure, on `escape', `freedom' and `choice'. He describes the relations between capitalism and leisure, the meaning of free time for workers in a capitalist system, and the gendered nature of leisure. He then discusses the social construction of leisure under modernity and the main competing arguments. Finally he examines postmodernity. Revealing how leisure practices have responded t |
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Capitalism and Leisure | 12 |
Reproduction | 28 |
Modernity and Leisure | 36 |
Mechanisms of Regulation | 59 |
The Disorder of Things | 79 |
The Phenomenology of Leisure | 117 |
Postmodernism and Leisure | 129 |
Postmodern Leisure | 146 |
146 | 193 |
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