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Decentring Leisure
Rethinking Leisure Theory
- Chris Rojek - City, University of London, UK, City University London, UK
Other Titles in:
Leisure Studies | Popular Culture (General) | Sociology of Sport and Leisure (General)
Leisure Studies | Popular Culture (General) | Sociology of Sport and Leisure (General)
March 1995 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, 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'.
Revealing how leisure practices have responded to living in a risk society, he shows that 'free' time becomes something very different when simulation and nostalgia lie at the heart of everyday life.
Introduction
PART ONE: CAPITALISM AND LEISURE
Capitalism
Capitalism
PART TWO: MODERNITY AND LEISURE
Modernity 1
Mechanisms of Regulation
Modernity 2
The Phenomenology of Leisure
PART THREE: POSTMODERNISM AND LEISURE
Postmodernity and Postmodernism
Postmodern Leisure
Conclusion
