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1 online resource (515 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Summary |
In current academic debates, leisure is increasingly defined as a discursive construction originating both from the specific meanings created by individuals, and the institutionalizing processes that legitimate certain experiences and their spatial-temporal conditions as ""leisure"". As a result of social construction and the different social conditions existing at a certain historical moment in different societies, the borders among the various aspects of leisure are becoming more and more blu ... |
Contents |
Part I. Frames -- Part II. Leisure across media technologies -- Part III. Leisure across gender, age and ethnicity -- Part IV. Leisure across sport, body and emotion -- Part V. Leisure across legal and illegal -- Part VI. Leisure across individual and collective spheres, social stratification and public policies. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Leisure -- History.
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Leisure. |
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History. |
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Leisure.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Lo Verde, Fabio Massimo, 1965- editor.
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Modi, Ishwar, 1940-2017, editor.
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Cappello, Gianna, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Verde, Fabio Massimo Lo. Mapping Leisure across Borders. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 9781443859578 |
ISBN |
9781443859578 (electronic book) |
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1443859575 (electronic book) |
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9781443849722 (print) |
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1443849723 |
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1306711762 e-book |
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9781306711760 e-book |
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