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‘Presumed intimacy’ refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of ‘presumed intimacy’, where audiences form strong identifications with mediated others, whether they be celebrities, political personae or online friends. Arguing that the way the media are able to manage these relationships is a significant aspect of their power structure, the core of the book is an investigation into the complicity of the media in encouraging presumed intimacy and the cultural, social and political consequences arising from this. Beyond this, it examines how intimacy is performed as a masquerade in many social settings – the scripts we follow in social settings that try to manufacture a shortcut to intimacy.A compelling look into mediated relationships in the network society, Presumed Intimacy will be a key contribution to the critical analysis of society, media and culture.

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9780745671109 | Polity Pr, December 30, 2015, cover price $69.95

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9780745671116 | Polity Pr, December 30, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: ‘Presumed intimacy’ refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability.

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Product Description: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time, Chris Rojek examines the four main structural characteristics of modern leisure practice: privatisation, individuation, commercialisation and pacification...read more

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9780415734608 | Routledge, September 25, 2013, cover price $155.00
9780403045594, titled "Bayou Folk" | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1989), cover price $79.00 | also contains Bayou Folk | About this edition: Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century American writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory.
9780422790604 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, November 1, 1985, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Great book for research, study, or review!

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9780415734622 | Routledge, April 7, 2015, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society.

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Product Description: While neo-liberalism works with a vigorous concept of the free individual, the social sciences regard the individual as a socially positioned actor. In Media and Communications this perspective has been developed most sharply in the proposition of media framing...read more

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9781472507501 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2016, cover price $112.00 | About this edition: While neo-liberalism works with a vigorous concept of the free individual, the social sciences regard the individual as a socially positioned actor.

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9781472514622 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 1, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: While neo-liberalism works with a vigorous concept of the free individual, the social sciences regard the individual as a socially positioned actor.

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Product Description: Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Event Management. The origins of the serious study of Event Management are comparatively recent, but the subject has evolved rapidly, often drawing on scholarship, research, and practice from a number of other disciplines and cognate areas―primarily, Sports Studies, Leisure Studies, and Hospitality Studies, but also Business Studies, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Political Science, and Sociology...read more
By Chris Rojek (editor)

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9780415509916 | Routledge, November 19, 2013, cover price $1465.00 | About this edition: Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this new title from Routledge’s Critical Perspectives on Business and Management series is a four-volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge research in Event Management.

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"Rojek’s argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people’s needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they allow a break from daily routines, provide an illusion of intimacy and social membership, and create a sense of self-validation and personal gratification. In short, participation in such events makes us feel good. At the same time, the real effect of global events seems to be the maintenance of global inequality and social injustice, as well as huge profits for the organizations involved in planning, commercializing and securing these happenings. In sketching out this palliative function of global events from the perspective of people’s needs on the one hand, and unveiling their puppet masters backstage on the other, Rojek’s book presents a compelling account of the role of organized events in modern society." - Organization Studies Events dominate our screens, our lives, and increasingly global geopolitics. Analysis of events and their management has remained rooted in leisure and management studies - until now. This break-through book provides an introduction to event management, while also situating events in questions of power and social control. Rojek powerfully argues that events are essential elements in corporate-state partnerships of ′invisible government′ that have revived the romance of charity as to form illusory communities, while cloaking power imbalances and social inequalities. Events are moving politics from the old idea of ′the personal is political′ to the new, more seductive notion that ′representation is resistance′. Wielding rich case studies from the World Cup and the Olympics to Live Aid, Burning Man and Mardi Gras, Rojek presents a dazzlingly original account of communication power, social ordering and control. It is essential reading in media & communication studies and across the social sciences.

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9780857025173 | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 28, 2013, cover price $127.00

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9780857025180 | Sage Pubns Ltd, February 28, 2013, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: "Rojek’s argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people’s needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they allow a break from daily routines, provide an illusion of intimacy and social membership, and create a sense of self-validation and personal gratification.

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Product Description: This follow-up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful 2001 book Celebrity assesses what celebrity culture means now, especially in the age of reality TV. Rojek argues that the framework for looking at celebrity culture is still valid, but the genres of ascribed celebrity, achieved celebrity, and celetoids overlap...read more

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9781849660723 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2012), cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This follow-up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful 2001 book Celebrity assesses what celebrity culture means now, especially in the age of reality TV.

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9781849660716 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 10, 2012), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: This follow-up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful 2001 book Celebrity assesses what celebrity culture means now, especially in the age of reality TV.

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Product Description: Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular culture―and the breadth and complexity of the canon on which it draws―makes this new four-volume Routledge collection especially timely...read more
By Chris Rojek (editor)

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9780415577045 | Routledge, November 4, 2011, cover price $1335.00 | About this edition: Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish.

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Product Description: What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying...read more

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9780745642635 | Polity Pr, June 21, 2011, cover price $69.95

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9780745642642 | Polity Pr, June 21, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: What is happening to pop music and pop culture?
9780198542766, titled "An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests" | Oxford Univ Pr, August 30, 1990, cover price $40.95 | also contains An Introduction to Tropical Rain Forests

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Product Description: This collection focuses on social science perspectives on popular music since the late 1970s when the drift away from Musicology started. The latter focuses upon music as a sequence of notes and silence, rather than the social, economic, cultural and political contexts in which popular music is produced, exchanged and consumed...read more
By Chris Rojek (editor)

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9781849207584 | Sage Pubns Ltd, August 9, 2011, cover price $1030.00 | About this edition: This collection focuses on social science perspectives on popular music since the late 1970s when the drift away from Musicology started.

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By Chris Rojek (editor)

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9780415494663, titled "Celebrity: Critical Concepts in Sociology" | 1 edition (Routledge, January 15, 2010), cover price $1580.00

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9781861891044 | Reaktion Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labor. Ranging widely from an analysis of the inflated aspirations of the leisure society thesis to the culture of deception that permeates leisure choice, the author shows how leisure is inextricably linked to emotional labor and intelligence...read more

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9781412945523 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 4, 2009, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its head to demonstrate how leisure has become a form of labor.

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9781412945530 | Sage Pubns Ltd, November 4, 2009, cover price $54.00

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Product Description: Leisure Studies brings together the seminal and seminal-to-be papers in a young and animated field of inquiry, which is nevertheless deeply rooted in the established fields of sociology, history, politics, geography, and economics...read more
By Chris Rojek (editor)

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9781412923941 | Sage Pubns Ltd, March 25, 2010, cover price $1030.00 | About this edition: Leisure Studies brings together the seminal and seminal-to-be papers in a young and animated field of inquiry, which is nevertheless deeply rooted in the established fields of sociology, history, politics, geography, and economics.

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Product Description: A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.
By Chris Rojek (editor) and Susan M. Shaw (editor)

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9781403902788 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 25, 2006, cover price $305.00

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9781403902795 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 26, 2007, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academics.

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What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with culture? How has the study of ideology, coding, theming and representation by Cultural Studies helped us to understand Reality TV, the Internet, mobile phones, the iPod and leading brands in neat capitalism like Virgin, The Body Shop and Apple? This lively and assured book provides a concise and authoritative critical guide to Cultural Studies. It demonstrates that the field has moved through four moments': the National/Popular, the Textual/Representational, Global/Post Essentialism and Governmentality/Policy. It illustrates the meaning of each of these moments by a discussion of representative texts and concrete examples from popular culture. As such, it achieves a novel and accessible account of the origins and development of the field. The book also shows how the readers personal experience can be systematically situated in cultural forces and used as a resource to clarify how culture works, through the analysis of on-location practice, embodiment, emplacement and context. Packed with illuminating examples, and a clear and compelling prose style, the book is the antidote to abstract, hazy accounts of the meaning and value of Cultural Studies. It is the ideal text for readers new to the field, but it will also be appreciated by established practitioners as good to think with.

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9780745636832 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, January 22, 2007), cover price $64.95

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9780745636849 | 1 edition (Polity Pr, January 2, 2007), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: What has the death of Corporal Patrick D.

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Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure. It demonstrates how power relations influence leisure choices and introduces students to the primary functions and regulative mechanisms of leisure, providing a thought provoking account of the central problems confronting students of leisure today. Written with the needs of students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in mind, the book will quickly be recognized as the bible for Leisure Theory.

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9781403905697 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2005, cover price $145.00

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9781403905703 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 10, 2005, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to leisure forms, leisure practice and the representation of leisure.

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By Craig Calhoun (editor), Chris Rojek (editor) and Bryan S. Turner (editor)

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9780761968214 | Sage Pubns Ltd, September 10, 2005, cover price $185.00

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Hardcover:

9780745630908 | Polity Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $69.95

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9780745630915 | Polity Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $22.95

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Product Description: Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today - no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field. This book is the first full-length study of Hall's work. It examines every aspect of his work and constitutes a major critical introduction and appraisal of Hall's contribution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780745624808 | Polity Pr, February 7, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today - no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field.

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9780745624815 | Polity Pr, February 7, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today - no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field.

By Chris Rojek (editor) and John Urry (editor)

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9780415111249 | Reprint edition (Routledge, June 1, 2000), cover price $210.00

Paperback:

9780415111256 | Routledge, June 10, 1997, cover price $65.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203427736, titled "Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory" | Routledge, June 1, 2002, cover price $51.95

Hardcover:

9780761970484 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2001, cover price $175.00

Paperback:

9780761970491 | Sage Pubns Ltd, June 4, 2001, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: This is the latest book on leisure from one of the leading figures in the field of leisure studies. It makes a major contribution in considering leisure as a primary aspect of cultural life. Chris Rojek treats modern culture as performative...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312225919 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1999, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This is the latest book on leisure from one of the leading figures in the field of leisure studies.

By Ellis Cashmore (editor) and Chris Rojek (editor)

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9780340645499 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 18, 1999, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780340645482, titled "The Dictionary of Cultural Theorists" | Hodder Education, March 18, 1999, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a survey - and rethinking - of leisure theory...read more

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9780803988125 | Sage Pubns Ltd, April 19, 1995, cover price $152.00 | About this edition: This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time.

Paperback:

9780803988132 | Sage Pubns Ltd, April 19, 1995, cover price $62.00

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