Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory

Rojek, Chris

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“…tourist use, response and meanings) underpin both the literary (Herbert 2001) and film tourism experience. Film and literary-induced tourism typify the values of postmodernity where the symbolic values of a product (in this case, a landscape, place or setting) often have greater appeal to the consumer than the product itself (Rojek 1995). In this respect, visiting a location associated with a particular film, scene, character or author forms a more appealing proposition than visiting that location for its intrinsic place qualities.…”

Section: Social Science Approaches To Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Film tourism – Evolution, progress and prospects

2012

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confidence: 99%

Film tourism – Evolution, progress and prospects

2012

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“…Writing thirty years ago, Parker noted that leisure was becoming more like work, quoting from Stone"s earlier analysis: "more and more we work at our play…we begin to evaluate our leisure in terms of the potential it has for work" (Stone, 1958: p. 285, cited in Parker 1976). However, the application of work values to leisure activities, and more generally the treatment of leisure time as a market resource (Rojek, 1989a(Rojek, , 1995, does not necessarily indicate that leisure is simply becoming more like work. Consider, for example, how work is becoming more like leisure, in creative work places (Florida, 2002), in the rise of the workplace nap (Baxter & Kroll-Smith, 2005), or in the ways in which some aspects of domestic labour (such as cooking and gardening) have taken on a "more leisurely, discretionary component" (nVision, 2006: p. 3).…”

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“…This sort of non-instrumental immediacy remains at the core of the cultural imaginary of leisure in consumer culture-leisure linked not to the function of social control and the instrumental reproduction of the social order, but to the ethos of spontaneity, excitement, play and irrationality (e.g. Dumazedier, 1974;Ferguson, 1989;Rojek, 1995). However, the commercial nature of the fitness field (and leisure more broadly) constrains the ideal construction (and, in a different way, the subjective experience) of the playful aspects of leisure.…”

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“…Sociologists of leisure (amongst others) have challenged the taken-for-granted mutual opposition of work and leisure, calling our attention to the spectrum of activities and continuities of dispositions that fall between and across the two realms, and to the historical specificity of the work/leisure boundary, which must be understood in the context of the dominant political-economic and social order (e.g. Bramham, 2002;Elias & Dunning, 1986;Parker, 1976;Rojek, 1985Rojek, , 1989aRojek, , 1989bRojek, , 1995.…”

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Leisure and the Obligation of Self‐Work: An Examination of the Fitness Field

Maguire

2008

Leisure Studies

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Abstract:This article examines the cultural field of fitness as a network of producers, consumers, products and practices that has developed around the care of the body through physical exercise. Drawing on a thematic text analysis of US exercise manuals, the paper focuses on how the commercial fitness field naturalizes associations between physical exercise and leisure, and between leisure and selfwork. In particular, the analysis examines three themes and their relevance to our broader understanding of leisure in contemporary consumer society: the management of leisure time; the use of leisure for self-investment strategies; and the promotion of consumption as the framework for leisure and an accompanying notion of pleasure. The fitness field casts light on how leisure more generally is constructed as a sphere of obligations to make productive use of one"s time, to improve one"s body and self, and to do so through the wares of the consumer marketplace. The cultural imaginary of leisure as a time of freedom from work and responsibility is thus recast, in an age of individualization, as a time of freedom to accomplish the work of self-production.

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“…Flexible working hours, four-day working week, increased levels of disposable income, and more leisure time influence the purchase of experiences achieved through leisure time and recreation and not through the possession of commodities. Rojek (1995) argued that people construct their own identities and choose who they really want to be through leisure time activities. With the rise of postmodernism, leisure has become the dominant factor in the determination of our identities and we become what we really are by the way in which we choose to conduct our leisure.…”

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Postmodern Society and Tourism

Dujmović¹,

Vitasović²

2015

JTHM

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The purpose of this paper is to indicate that in today's circumstances of time and space compression, diversification of the tourism product, and diversity and multiplicity of tourist experiences, it is necessary to move away from the traditional typologically rigid and narrow theoretical framework towards more flexible conceptualisations. The paper brings a theoretical overview of theorists who have been meritorious for such a shift of opinion and associated with the emergence of the postmodern thought in the contemporary tourism theory.The abandonment of tourist typologies, the shift of attention towards the existential authenticity, and the admittance that tourism is a multisensory and physical experience bear witness to the recent theoretical shift in the study of the tourist experience which stresses the importance of the individual and his/her role in the tourist industry. New forms of tourism have been emerging, which have the potential to replace or at least change the already existing forms and fundamental tourism structures. A new type of tourism demand has significantly changed the nature of tourism offer. The alterations in the tourism offer and demand and the mere nature of the tourism product are usually associated with the concept of the post-tourist. By focusing on the effects of increasing mobilities of people and objects and new ways of sensing a touristic world, this work is a contribution to new directions in tourism analysis providing an account of various tourists' performances that help to constitute tourist destinations.

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Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory

Cited by 199 publications

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Film tourism – Evolution, progress and prospects

Film tourism – Evolution, progress and prospects

Leisure and the Obligation of Self‐Work: An Examination of the Fitness Field

Postmodern Society and Tourism

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