{"product_id":"9783030716714","title":"Leisure Studies in a Global Era","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLeisure Studies in a Global Era\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWiseman, Tania\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses leisure choice as a complex concept, made more complicated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein later life than at any other time. The author posits that there are many\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunanswered questions about the new booming generation of healthy, older\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epeople, and this book asks what it is really like to be old at the beginning of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e21st century in the United Kingdom, analysing leisure in older people in the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtext of the subtle politics of the day to day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the chapters, the author highlights the often missing depictions of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eolder people who enjoy and enact bold, informed agency as part of their everyday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elives. Drawing upon secondary data from the Mass Observation Archive, a social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethesis of leisure and ageing emerges that challenges the individualism inherent in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘active ageing.’ It is proposed that the idea of ‘active ageing’ creates complex\u003c\/p\u003econstraints to leisure as people strive to measure up to cultural expectations. The\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estories in this book advocate for an appreciation and re-evaluation of passive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eleisure in later life, and the enjoyment and freedom it can bring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe project is therefore useful to students and researchers of leisure studies,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egerontology and sociology of ageing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2021-05-16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030716714\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-71672-1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 224\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46547934707852,"sku":"9783030716714","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030716714.jpg?v=1772933228","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783030716714","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}