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Deviant Leisure - Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Deviant Leisure - Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harm (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
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This book brings together a collection of critical essays that
challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social
good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of
leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture
have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society,
ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display
individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book
problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms
that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense
individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of
commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this
collection of essays pushes far beyond criminology's traditional
interest in 'deviant' forms of leisure, to consider the normalized
social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the
intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the
current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which
is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection
uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical
enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol
consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training;
and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK,
US, Europe and Australia, Deviant Leisure: Criminological
Perspectives on Leisure and Harm represents the first systematic
attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of
the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of
serious criminological importance.
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