Introduction

Abstract

Critical studies of leisure face an uncertain future as meaningful, intellectual and professional pursuits. Postmodernism and postmodernity have challenged the taken-for-granted assumptions about Gramscian hegemony underpinning much of the leisure theory that dominated the discipline twenty years ago (Rojek, 1995, 2002). Many theorists and researchers of leisure have given up the attempt to develop a coherent theory of leisure and have retreated to specialisms in sport, tourism or cultural studies (Bramham, 2006).