Landscapes of Leisure: Space, Place and Identities
S. Gammon · S. Elkington
Jan 2016 · Springer
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238
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This volume aims to map out the complex relationships leisure has with notions of place and space in contemporary life. Illustrating the transdisciplinarity of this key feature of leisure studies, it explores how leisure places and spaces affect personal, social and collective identities.
About the author
Sean Gammon is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has been actively researching in the area of sport tourism for three decades; primarily focusing on sport tourist customer motivation, and nostalgia and heritage. He is co-editor, with Sam Elkington, of Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure (2014).
Sam Elkington is Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Northumbria University, UK. Sam's research reflects his interests in philosophical and social psychological dimensions of space and place, as well as theorising various aspects of the Serious Leisure Perspective. He is co-author of The Serious Leisure Perspective: An Introduction (with Robert Stebbins, 2014).
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