This book contains original work from key scholars across the globe, including those working outside the Leisure Studies mainstream.

... Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies should therefore be the intel- lectual guide of first choice for all scholars , academics , researchers and students working in this subject area . Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam ...

In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis.

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 ...

The requisite empathy for others, socially acceptable values and correct forms of self-presentation demand work. Much of this work is concentrated in non-work activity, compromising traditional connections between leisure and freedom.

Drawing on the idea that leisure studies is a ‘language game’, Tony Blackshaw subsequently offers his own original theory of liquid leisure which asks some key questions about the present and the future of leisure in people’s lives, ...

This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual activity and its relevance to leisure studies.

This is the first handbook devoted entirely to leisure theory, charting the history and philosophy of leisure, theories in religion and culture, and rational theories of leisure in the Western philosophical tradition, as well as a range of ...

This book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated in later life than at any other time.