Location Principles

Abstract

In this chapter you will be:

• Introduced to methodological issues pertinent to the study of location practice.

• Shown the difference between indexical, homological and integral levels of location research.

• Appraised of the distinction between serious and casual leisure.

• Invited to consider the relationship between leisure, social density and social capital and encouraged to assign the political dimensions of leisure forms and practice as a prerequisite of research.

• Shown the meaning of the concepts of ‘escape’, ‘limit experience’ and ‘edgework’ in leisure forms and practice.

• Offered a model of the abnormal forms of leisure.