|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and
leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness
across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of
leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports
media and sports fandom, informal leisure, outdoor leisure, music,
popular culture and tourism.
The social sciences have a legitimacy problem in the modern world.
The natural sciences are viewed as 'proper science' by journalists
and policy-makers because they discover 'truths', make money, and
help governments solve problems. In turn, defenders of the social
sciences borrow the language of instrumentality, profit and policy
impact. Karl Spracklen, by contrast, makes the moral case for the
social sciences, arguing that they are a necessary social good
capable of fighting inequality and revealing the workings of
hegemonic power.
The way in which leisure is used to construct whiteness and the way
in which whiteness shapes leisure, is an important unanswered theme
in sociological analyses of leisure. This book develops a new
theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure, which draws in part
on existing leisure theories and in part on the critical theorising
around 'race' and whiteness. In developing a new theory of
whiteness and leisure, new primary and existing secondary empirical
research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a
comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure
practices. The book explores sports participation, sports media and
sports fandom, informal leisure, outdoor leisure, music, popular
culture and tourism.
This book is grounded in Spracklen's development of leisure theory
that uses a Habermasian framework of communicative and instrumental
rationalities and actions to understand the tensions between
utopian theories of individualized leisure and dystopian theories
of increasing constraint and control.
This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and
leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness
across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of
leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports
media and sports fandom, informal leisure, outdoor leisure, music,
popular culture and tourism.
This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the
past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not
enough to write a history of leisure on its own in fact, it is
impossible without engaging in the debate about what counts as
leisure (in the present and in the past). Writing a history of
leisure, then, entails writing a philosophy of leisure: and any
history needs to be a philosophical history as well. That is the
purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through
historical time, how leisure was constructed and understood by
historical actors, how communicative reason and free will
interacted with instrumentality at different times, how historians
have reconstructed past leisure through historiography, and
finally, how writers have perceived the meaning and purpose of
leisure in alternative histories. Providing a sweeping overview of
the field, Karl Spracklen charts how the concept of leisure was
understood in Ancient history, through to modern times, and looks
at leisure in different societies and cultures including Byzantium
and Asian civilizations, as well as looking at leisure and Islam.
Spracklen concludes with a chapter on future histories of leisure.
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines
challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the
different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political
shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport
and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines
challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the
different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political
shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport
and anti-racism in sport, and the challenge to sport today.
This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure
as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from
sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the
grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central
to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and
globalization.
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects
with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of
cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities
remain fascinating spaces of cultural contestation and
meaning-making via the composing, playing, recording and
consumption of popular music.
This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the
past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not
enough to write a history of leisure on its own in fact, it is
impossible without engaging in the debate about what counts as
leisure (in the present and in the past). Writing a history of
leisure, then, entails writing a philosophy of leisure: and any
history needs to be a philosophical history as well. That is the
purpose of this book. It provides an account of leisure through
historical time, how leisure was constructed and understood by
historical actors, how communicative reason and free will
interacted with instrumentality at different times, how historians
have reconstructed past leisure through historiography, and
finally, how writers have perceived the meaning and purpose of
leisure in alternative histories. Providing a sweeping overview of
the field, Karl Spracklen charts how the concept of leisure was
understood in Ancient history, through to modern times, and looks
at leisure in different societies and cultures including Byzantium
and Asian civilizations, as well as looking at leisure and Islam.
Spracklen concludes with a chapter on future histories of leisure.
|
|