This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2010

ISBN

9780230299979

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Regional Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure
1 Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations
2 Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol Consumption, Past and Present
3 Outdoor Recreation and the Environment
4 Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure
5 Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture
6 Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk and Leisure
7 States, Markets and New Media: The Contemporary Politics of Gambling
8 Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work and Leisure
9 Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality
10 ‘They Can’t Stop Us Laughing’; Politics, Leisure and the Comedy Business
11 Noughties Reading
12 Sport and Lifestyle
13 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in an Era of X Factor and Digital Pirates
14 Doublethink: ‘Deregulation’, Censure and ‘Adult-Sex’ on Television
15 Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure
Index