Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

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 contains original work from key scholars across the globe, including those working outside the Leisure Studies mainstream, and showcases the state of the art of contemporary Leisure Studies suggesting that leisure in the 21st century should be understood as centring on a new ‘Big Seven’ (holidays, drink, drugs, sex, gambling, TV and shopping). No other book has gone as far in redefining the identity of the discipline of Leisure Studies, or in suggesting how the substantive ideas of Leisure Studies need to be rethought. The Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies should therefore be the intellectual guide of choice for all scholars, academics, researchers and students working in this subject area.