This edited collection highlights the diversity and reach of global leisure studies and global leisure theory. It explores the impact of globalization on leisure, and the sites of resistance and accommodation found in local, virtual and global leisure spaces.
Unlike any other collection on leisure studies, Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World is truly representative of the diversity of the large and growing leisure scholarship across the globe. It demonstrates how researchers in leisure studies and sociology of leisure are applying complex theory to their work, and how a new theory of global leisure is emerging.
1. Introduction.
Section 1: Local Leisure, Meaning and Resistance.
2. Sexlessness among Contemporary Japanese Couples; Alice Pacher.
3. Singing Group: The Playful Present in Health Promotion; Mira?ra Noal Manfroi et al.
4. Celebration of Ramadam: The Case of Turkey; Zuhal Yonca Odabas and G?nnur Ertong Attar.
5. Youth's Well-Being and Leisure Time: An International Perspective; Anju Beniwal.
Section 2: Virtual Leisure and Pop Culture.
6. Japanese Idol Culture for 'Contents Tourism' and Regional Revitilization: A Case Study of Regional Idols; Yuki Takima.
7. Being There and Being Someone Else: Leisure and Identity in the Age of Virtual Reality; Jonathan Harth.
8. Video Games in the Family Context: How do Digital Media Influence the Relation Between Children and Their Parents?; Damian GaBuszka.
9. Projecting Gender, Sexuality Through the Nigerian Music Industry; Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi.
10. Doing Manga as Leisure and Its Meaning and Purpose: The Case of Japanese Female Manga Fal3.
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