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Title Mapping leisure across borders / edited by Fabio Massimo Lo Verde, Ishwar Modi, and Gianna Cappello.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (515 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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Subject Leisure -- History.
Leisure.
History.
Leisure.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Lo Verde, Fabio Massimo, 1965- editor.
Modi, Ishwar, 1940-2017, editor.
Cappello, Gianna, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Verde, Fabio Massimo Lo. Mapping Leisure across Borders. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 9781443859578
ISBN 9781443859578 (electronic book)
1443859575 (electronic book)
9781443849722 (print)
1443849723
1306711762 e-book
9781306711760 e-book