Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure

Sam Elkington is a senior lecturer in Sport Management and a teaching fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, UK. His research reflects his interests in phenomenology and pedagogy, namely, the social psychological dimensions of sport and leisure experiences and the nature, policy and practice of sport and leisure education. Sean J. Gammon is based in the School of Sport, Tourism and the Outdoors at the University of Lancashire, UK. He is widely published in the area of sport-related tourism and continues to explore the linkages between sport, nostalgia and heritage. In addition he has researched the effectiveness of applying autotelic structures in the delivery of higher education courses to improve student creativity.

Part 1: Meanings Ch 1. Leisure in the Laboratory and Other Strange Notions: Psychological Research on the Subjective Nature of Leisure Ch 2. Escape from time: Experience the travel within Ch 3. Leisure, Happiness and Positive Lifestyle Ch 4. Leisure, Life, Enjoyment and Well-Being Ch 5. Deviance, Dark Tourism and ‘Dark Leisure’: Towards a (re)configuration of morality and the taboo in secular society Part 2: Motives Ch 6. The Unsustainability of Leisure: The Sustainability of Just Leisure Ch 7. Playing In The Great Outdoors: Risk and Adventure Activities In The Twenty-first Century Ch 8. Sites of Serious Leisure: Acting Up In Space and Place Ch 9. I am what I pretend to be: Performance and Deception in Leisure Ch 10. The Technological Mediation of Leisure in Contemporary Society Ch 11. How Not to Take the Fun out of Everything: Facilitating Volunteering and Leisure Ch 12. Youth and Leisure Experiences: Youth cultures and social change in Britain since the early-20th century Part 3: Learning Ch 13. Reflective Leisure, Freedom and Identity Ch 14. The Comprehensive Leisure Participation Framework: Theoretical Foundation, Cross-Cultural Variation, and Practical Implications Ch 15. Leisure, Identities and Personal Growth Ch 16. Models of Teaching in Leisure Education Ch 17. To Boldly Go … Tales From a Leisurist