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Product Description: In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of society, including a plurality of new leisure worlds, and traditional concepts of Leisure Studies fail to capture this richness...read more
By Tony Blackshaw (editor)

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9781138898844 | Routledge, September 8, 2016, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis.

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading social and political thinkers of the modern world. He is a classic thinker in the sense that his books possess the two qualities laid out by the founding fathers of the social sciences - the moral basis and the artistic touch - but his greatest interest is in showing how personal troubles are inextricably connected to public issues. He turns his critical eye on just about any social issue, event or institution from shopping to the state and from sex to social inequality. To read Bauman is to see how the rhythms of everyday life may be turned into an erudite and critical practice that burns itself into the sociological imagination. Bauman is an immensely prolific writer and his early work, in particular, can be very demanding of the reader. This book presents a wide range of important, lively and engaging readings, aiming to capture the originality of Bauman's special way of doing sociology and all the complexity of his core ideas, in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds. It is an ideal student introduction to Bauman's work, offering a mix of book chapters and essay discussions, excerpts from interviews and snapshots on life from Bauman's pocket books. The ultimate aim of the reader is to show students how to 'think sociologically' with Bauman. Organized in four parts, with a substantive introduction by the editor, the volume closes with an epilogue from Bauman himself.
By Tony Blackshaw (editor)

Hardcover:

9781472590589 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 19, 2016, cover price $128.00 | About this edition: Zygmunt Bauman is one of the leading social and political thinkers of the modern world.

Paperback:

9781472590572 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, May 19, 2016, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and examining Leisure Studies’ fundamental connections with cognate disciplines such as Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Sport Studies and Tourism...read more
By Tony Blackshaw (editor)

Hardcover:

9780415697170 | Routledge, June 12, 2013, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies.

Paperback:

9781138924611 | Routledge, April 21, 2015, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies.

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Product Description: This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts, and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners...read more

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9781412928434 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 25, 2009, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts, and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners.

Paperback:

9781412928441 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 25, 2009, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: This book defines the current identity of community studies, provides a critical but reliable introduction to its key concepts, and is an engaging guide to the key social research methods used by community researchers and practitioners.

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Product Description: No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to be resolved...read more

Hardcover:

9780415430265 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 21, 2010), cover price $155.00 | About this edition: No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure.

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9780415430272 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 21, 2010), cover price $43.95 | About this edition: No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure.

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Product Description: This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent refocusing on 'liquid' modernity – as well as offering a clear and accessible guide to the key conceptual hinges which move the reader on...read more

Hardcover:

9780415355056 | Routledge, October 1, 2005, cover price $175.00

Paperback:

9780415355049 | Routledge, October 31, 2005, cover price $53.95 | About this edition: This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman.

Miscellaneous:

9780203001752 | Routledge, August 11, 2005, cover price $39.95

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The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance.

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9780415288842 | Routledge, November 1, 2004, cover price $205.00

Paperback:

9780415288859 | Routledge, November 1, 2004, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess.

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Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group of working-class men - 'the lads' - Tony Blackshaw argues that traditional social collectivities such as class are being superseded. Instead, leisure life is now the central arena in which individuals assert their identities and confirm their belonging. For 'the lads', leisure time is the pivotal point in a fragmented life which not only allows them to fashion some sense of order in a world of endemic disorder but also provides opportunities for the assertion of their masculinity.The book uniquely combines 'the lads'' own raw and compelling accounts of their leisure experiences with a sophisticated interpretive analysis. In doing so, it draws on the work of major theorists such as Baudrillard, Derrida, Foucault, and especially Bauman to develop new critical insights into our understanding of the meaning of leisure.Leisure Life awakens the sociological imagination. It offers a new approach to the study of masculinity and the ethnography of leisure, making it appropriate for courses in sociology, leisure, cultural and gender studies. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780415270724 | Routledge, July 1, 2003, cover price $215.00

Paperback:

9780415270731, titled "Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity" | Routledge, June 1, 2003, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity.

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