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Leisure and Consumption

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A Handbook of Leisure Studies

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Forms and practices of leisure exist in dynamic and uneasy tension with the interests and demands of commerce. Conceptually, leisure and consumption appear to be at odds with one another; practically, in everyday life, they are difficult to disentangle. The steady rise to prominence of a culture of consumption over the course of the twentieth century has been accompanied by the presence of markets and the dominance of a market logic in virtually every corner of social life in the twenty-first (Cross, 2000; Slater, 1997). Leisure, often conceptualized by theorists and practitioners as an escape from the vicissitudes of productive life, can itself hardly escape the pull of capital. New forms of leisure, in fact, are dependent upon media and market forces to garner audiences and procure adherents.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Law and Social Science, Brunel University, West London, UK

    Chris Rojek

  2. Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Susan M. Shaw

  3. School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    A. J. Veal

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Cook, D.T. (2006). Leisure and Consumption. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_18

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