Positioning Leisure
The Leisure Society Thesis and Its Consequences
Roadblocks to Free Time
Visionaries and Pragmatists
What Is Wrong with Leisure Studies?
Multiple Equilibria: A Balanced Approach
The State
Corporations
It′s Still Leisure, Stupid
Chris Rojek is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Brunel University, West London. He is a prolific and influential author in the field of Celebrity, Leisure Studies and Popular Culture. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora prize for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure and Tourism Studies. Besides lecturing in the UK he has given lectures on leisure in Australia, Canada, the USA and the Netherlands. In 2009 he was Hood Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He also writes on celebrity culture, neat capitalism and myths and realities of national identity. His current research is on popular music and popular culture and the meaning of the celetoid in Reality TV.
As ever Rojek′s spotlight on the world of leisure is so bright that
it makes the rest of leisure studies fade to grey. He has also
clearly developed a new talent for conceptual concision and
clarity, as well as a capacity to express complex ideas in terms
that even students can follow. This book should go down well with
students and their tutors alike
Tony Blackshaw
Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sheffield Hallam
University We all wish to be free, and know that others keep
telling us that we are; sometimes we indeed feel free. Seldom,
though, do we pause and think what all that means. Like in the case
of so many other experiences, we start thinking about their
meanings only when something goes wrong; we run to lock the stable
after the horse has bolted. Most of the time freedom remains to
most of us a mystery. Chris Rojek, the most insistent, systematic
and knowledgeable student of the ′condition of being free′, offers
us a chance of repairing that. Having read The Labour of Leisure,
we may learn what being free really means, how to practice the
difficult art of freedom and what stops us from practicing it as we
could
Zygmunt Bauman
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds Rojek provides
a much needed correction in understanding what leisure is--and is
not--in the 21st Century. A welcome provocation concerning modern
life
Geoffrey Godbey
Pennsylvania State University
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