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  • Invisible Seasides

    A New Way of Redeeming a Utopia’s Past and Imagining its Afterlife

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold. Wide-ranging in theme, it brings a double perspective, past and present, to bear on how we understand contemporary seaside experience.Presenting a magical paradox of the modern seaside, this book traces the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Working-Class Life in Northern England, 1945-2010

    The Pre-History and After-Life of the Inbetweener Generation

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Leisure Life

    Myth, Modernity and Masculinity

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Leisure Life is a ground-breaking study of men and masculinity. Focusing on the social networks and leisure lifestyles of a particular group of working-class men - 'the lads' - Tony Blackshaw argues that traditional social collectivities such as class are being superseded. Instead, leisure life is now the central arena in which individuals assert their identities and confirm their belonging. For ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Zygmunt Bauman

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Leisure

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    No single introductory book has until now captured the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the idea of leisure. Beginning with a discussion of expressions in classical thought, etymological definitions and key leisure studies concepts, Blackshaw suggests that the idea abounds with ambivalence, which is unlikely ever to be resolved.After analyzing the rise and fall of modern leisure ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Key Concepts in Community Studies

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "This book is both insightful and engaging, enriched with diverse and up-to-date readings. Tony Blackshaw lays bare debates surrounding the uses and abuses of key concepts of community studies and breathes new life into community as theory and community studies as method."- Peter Bramham, Leeds Metropolitan University"I would highly recommend this book to any student who is studying communities ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Re-Imagining Leisure Studies

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Leisure Studies
    In this provocative new book, Tony Blackshaw argues that Leisure Studies is in a quiet but deep state of crisis. The twenty-first century has brought profound change to all aspects of society, including a plurality of new leisure worlds, and traditional concepts of Leisure Studies fail to capture this richness. This book aims to re-invigorate Leisure Studies by revealing and unpacking these ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Dictionary of Leisure Studies

    by Tony Blackshaw, Garry Crawford ...
    What is Leisure Studies? Who are the key figures in the field? How can we evaluate the relevance of concepts in the field?This is the first full length Dictionary of Leisure Studies. It examines the key concepts, assesses the work of central figures and helps students zero-in on essential issues and conceptual distinctions.The Book:• Provides an unprecedented critical survey of the field• Offers ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • The new Bauman reader

    Thinking sociologically in liquid modern times

    Edited by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn't just tell us that Bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Leisure Studies

    Edited by Tony Blackshaw ...
    This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies, tracing the emergent issues at stake in the discipline and examining Leisure Studies’ fundamental ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'

    Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control

    by Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw ...
    The everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze.In addressing these ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

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  • Lifestyles

    by David Chaney ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    In the modern world our lifestyle helps to define our attitudes and values as well as show our wealth and social position. This clearly written introduction to the concept of lifestyle offers a concise guide to how the term is used in sociological accounts to refer to this modern social form. Lifestyles explores* how we should classify lifestyles* why they have become more important* what ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD