Deviant leisure : criminological perspectives on leisure and harm / Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith, editors.

Titolo

Deviant leisure : criminological perspectives on leisure and harm / Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith, editors.

Descrizione

Title from PDF of title page (viewed, Jan. 9, 2020)
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.

Editore

Palgrave Macmillan,

Data

Autore di contributo subordinato

Raymen, Thomas.
Smith, Oliver, 1977-
SpringerLink (Online service)

Relazione

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-17736-2

Formato

1 online resource (xvii, 439 p.) : ill.

Lingua

eng

Tipo

a

Diritti di accesso

Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-17736-2 doi

ISBN

9783030177355 (hbk.) :
9783030177362 (PDF ebook) : £74.50
9783030177355 (hbk.) : £109.99

Series

Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture
Palgrave studies in crime, media and culture.

Files

2019_Book_DeviantLeisure.pdf

Citation

“Deviant leisure : criminological perspectives on leisure and harm / Thomas Raymen, Oliver Smith, editors.,” Lex e-books - Collana, ultimo accesso il 23 dicembre 2024, http://ebooks.unict.it/omeka/items/show/555.