Handbook of Leisure Studies

This handbook addresses the history, organization and central debates in the field of leisure studies. More than thirty chapters from leading international scholars are presented in five clearly defined parts. These examine the origins of leisure studies; review and evaluate the contributions and approaches to leisure studies of key social science disciplines; provide a guide to core questions in the organization of leisure that recur in the literature; consider locations and forms of leisure; and consider the key themes that run through debates as the subject has matured in a central part of the social science canon. Critically summing up the achievements of the field and providing an agenda for future debate and research, it offers an invaluable resource for students, scholars and lecturers.

CHRIS ROJEK is Professor of Sociology and Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of many books the most recent of which are Leisure Theory, Celebrity, Stuart Hall, and Frank Sinatra. In 2003 he was awarded the Allen V. Sapora Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Leisure Studies.

ANTHONY J VEAL is President of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies and former chair of the Leisure Studies Association (UK). He is Adjunct Professor at the School of Leisure, Sport & Tourism at the University of Technology, Sydney, and has authored/co-authored a number of books, including Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism and Work and Leisure.

Professor SUSAN SHAW is Chair of the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is author/co-author of a great many publications, including Both Gains and Gaps: Feminist Perspectives on Women's Leisure.