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Télécharger le livre :  Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course
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Alcohol, Age, Generation and the Life Course


Laura Fenton , Thomas Thurnell-Read


This volume explores generational differences in alcohol consumption practices and examines the changing role of alcohol across the life course. It considers generational patterns in where, how and why people buy and consume alcohol and how these may interact with...

Parution : 2022-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood
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Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood


Catherine Hoad


This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The author argues that whiteness, and more specifically white masculinity, has been given normative value...

Parution : 2021-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Football Fans and Social Spacing
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Football Fans and Social Spacing


Ian Woolsey


This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has...

Parution : 2021-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Leisure in Later Life
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Leisure in Later Life


Tania Wiseman


This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicatedin later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are manyunanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, olderpeople, and this book asks what it is really...

Parution : 2021-05-15
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Télécharger le livre :  An Ethnography of Urban Exploration
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An Ethnography of Urban Exploration


Kevin P. Bingham


This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye. Drawing on Michel...

Parution : 2020-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Flamenco
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Transnational Flamenco


Tenley Martin


This book provides insight into how flamenco travels, the forms it assumes in new locales, and the reciprocal effects on the original scene.  Utilising a postnational approach to cultural identity, Martin explores the role of non-native culture brokers in cultural...

Parution : 2020-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor
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Becoming and Being a Camp Counsellor


Mandi Baker


This book explores the complexities of the recreational summer camp experience and its reliance on the expertise and emotion work of young people. Drawing on post-structural theory, Baker illustrates the discourses, power relations and emotional demands that shape camp...

Parution : 2019-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosplay and the Art of Play
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Cosplay and the Art of Play


Garry Crawford , David Hancock


This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.  Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the innovative use of...

Parution : 2019-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Time, Freedom and the Self
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Time, Freedom and the Self


Michelle Shir-Wise


While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self. In an attempt to fill this gap, Michelle Shir-Wise...

Parution : 2019-04-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Creativity in the Recording Studio
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Creativity in the Recording Studio


Paul Thompson


Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making. Side A illustrates how creativity arises out of a system in action, and introduces the history, culture, traditions and institutions that contribute to the process of...

Parution : 2018-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Sounds and the City
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Sounds and the City


Brett Lashua , Karl Spracklen , Stephen Wagg , M. Selim Yavuz


This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places,...

Parution : 2018-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment
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Leisure as Source of Knowledge, Social Resilience and Public Commitment


Lise Kjølsrød


This book provides a bottom-up contribution to contemporary political and cultural theory, by presenting leisure activities as a democratic arena.  Where much of the existing literature on leisure and play views participants as consumers, Kjølsrød presents...

Parution : 2018-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World
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Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World


Anju Beniwal , Rashmi Jain , Karl Spracklen


This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.Unlike any...

Parution : 2018-04-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives
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Modern Vintage Homes & Leisure Lives


Samantha Holland


This book explores the meanings and practices of vintage lives. It focuses on the non-mainstream subculture of vintage clothes and lifestyle, specifically that of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and asks how those engaged in the culture place themselves within the...

Parution : 2017-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Leisure's Legacy
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Leisure's Legacy


Robert A. Stebbins


This book illustrates how leisure, as with other complex ideas that hold currency in today’s world, suffers at the level of common sense, due to a combination of oversimplification, moral depreciation, and even lack of recognition.Leisure’s modern legacy is both...

Parution : 2017-07-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Nashville
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Performing Nashville


Robert W. Fry , Robert W. Fry


This book explores the formation and continuance of Nashville, Tennessee as a music place, the importance of the fans (tourists) in creating Nashville’s multifaceted musical identity, and the music and city’s influence on the formation and performance of the...

Parution : 2017-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Leisure, Health and Well-Being
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Leisure, Health and Well-Being


Zsuzsanna Benko , Ishwar Modi , Klára Tarkó


This book explores health and leisure as a holistic phenomenon with individual and social dimensions. Contributors to this edited volume explore the physical, mental, emotional, sexual and social aspects of health and leisure as well as the influence of moral and...

Parution : 2017-03-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Event Studies
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Critical Event Studies


Louise Platt , Ian R Lamond


Critical Event Studies is a growing field, not just within event management and event studies, but across the traditional and digital social sciences. This volume -with contributions from a range of international scholars- is the first to consider the wide variety of...

Parution : 2016-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play
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The Interrelationship of Leisure and Play


Robert A. Stebbins


Augmentative play is a special activity that substantially aids the pursuit of a larger, encompassing leisure activity. This approach to the study of play is unique. It recognizes the hundreds of activities in which play and leisure come together.

Parution : 2016-02-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Landscapes of Leisure
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Landscapes of Leisure


S. Elkington , S. Gammon


This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and...

Parution : 2016-01-12
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