Australian Leisure (4e)

For first year students in tertiary leisure studies programs, both Leisure Studies and Social Science.

Australian Leisure 4e provides an introduction to and analysis of a broadly defined concept of leisure. It integrates Australian and international knowledge so that the book is an Australian interpretation, based largely on local sources, but which engages with relevant international research and theory. This edition has been extensively reviewed and updated and includes new chapters on social networks, global cultures and events.

Leisure is not just sport, or the arts, or outdoor recreation, it is all these things and more, including tourism, gambling, hobbies, television watching, entertainment, play and doing nothing in particular.

The purpose of the text is to illuminate leisure and its place in past, present and future Australian society. The text is designed to lead students into the subject and provide pointers to more detailed study, through discussion questions and guides to further reading.

Preface
Contributors

PART I INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY

1. This thing called leisure
2. Historical perspectives

PART II STUDYING LEISURE
3. Studying leisure
4. Contemporary patterns of Australian leisure
5. Providers in the mixed economy of leisure

PART III LEISURE SECTORS AND FORMS
6. At home at leisure
7. Social media and leisure
8.  Arts and culture
9. Sport
10.  Outdoor recreation
11. Tourism
12. Special events
13. Leisure and health
14. ‘Deviant’ leisure

PART IV LEISURE AND DIVERSITY
15. Human rights, disability and leisure
16. Leisure and Aboriginal culture from Federation
17. Global cultures and ethnicity
18. Gender and sexuality
19. Leisure, youth and ageing

PART V LEISURE AND THE FUTURE
20. Working in leisure
21. Leisure and the future

Index

The 4th edition of Australian Leisure has been extensively reviewed and updated and includes new chapters on social networks, global cultures and events.

The text provides students with a comprehensive overview of the field of leisure studies. Supporting material includes an image bank for each chapter and can be found on the Pearson catalogue page www.pearson.com.au/9781442541474.

NEW – Chapter 7 Social media and leisure
NEW – Chapter 12 Special events
NEW – Chapter 17 Global cultures and ethnicity
NEW – Supporting material includes an image bank for each chapter and can be found on the Pearson catalogue page, www.pearson.com.au/9781442541474.

Additional changes from 3rd to 4th edition
The book has been divide into five parts:
I     Introduction and history
II    Studying leisure
III  Leisure sectors and forms
IV  Leisure and diversity
V   The future

Content rearranged in some chapters, notably:

• combining two historical chapters (Chs 2 & 3 in E3) into one (Chapter 2);
• incorporating the chapter on politics (Ch. 7 in E3) into Chapter 3;
• dividing the chapter on specific population groups (Ch. 17 in E3) into two, one dealing with human rights and disability (Chapter 15) and one with youth and ageing (Chapter 19).

• Inclusion of Indigenous culture and leisure
• Figures & Tables provide visual and statistical cues to enhance the learning process
• Case studies provide a range of real world research into leisure
• Summaries
• Discussion questions as a basis for discussion in tutorials.
• Exercises help students to understand the key concepts of the leisure industry
• Further reading and suggested websites
• Accessible, readable style
  

AJ Veal is Adjunct Professor in leisure studies, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney.

Simon Darcy is Associate Professor in events, sport and tourism, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney.

Rob Lynch is Emeritus Professor and former Dean of Business, University of Technology, Sydney.

Contributors
Daryl Adair: Associate Professor in sport management, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
Stephen Frawley: Lecturer in sport management, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
Simone Fullagar, Associate Professor in the sociology of leisure and health, Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management, Griffith University
Lee-Anne Hall: Lecturer in arts and cultural management, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
Duncan Murray: Senior Lecturer in sport and recreation management, School of Management, University of South Australia.
John Neil: Lecturer in arts and cultural management, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
Stephen Schweinsberg, Lecturer in sustainable management and research methods, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney
Wendy Symonds: Lecturer in events management, Business School, University of Technology, Sydney