Dear all, a book that maybe of interest

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Subject: [BSA-RACE] New(ish) Book - Whiteness and Leisure by Karl Spracklen (Palgrave, 2013)

Hello all

As I am fairly new to the BSA-Race-Ethnicity Study Group mailing list I did not send news of my last monograph around the mailing list when it came out in the second half of last year. Anyone studying or teaching whiteness, racialization and popular culture (and/or music, sports, sports media, tourism and leisure) will find it useful.

Whiteness and Leisure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
Karl Spracklen

Series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era

Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His previous publications include Leisure, Sports and Society, The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure, Constructing Leisure and Sport and Challenges to Racism (co-edited with Jonathan Long).

The way in which leisure is used to construct whiteness and the way in which whiteness shapes leisure, is an important unanswered theme in sociological analyses of leisure. This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure, which draws in part on existing leisure theories and in part on the critical theorising around 'race' and whiteness. In developing a new theory of whiteness and leisure, new primary and existing secondary empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure practices. The book explores sports participation, sports media and sports fandom, informal leisure, outdoor leisure, music, popular culture and tourism.

This book is grounded in Spracklen's development of leisure theory that uses a Habermasian framework of communicative and instrumental rationalities and actions to understand the tensions between utopian theories of individualized leisure and dystopian theories of increasing constraint and control.

Content:
1. Thinking about the Problem
2. Theories of 'Race' and Whiteness
3. Studies of Whiteness in Leisure Studies
4. A New Theory of Whiteness
5. Whiteness and Popular Culture
6. Whiteness and Music
7. Whiteness and Sport
8. Whiteness and Sports Media
9. Whiteness and Everyday Leisure
10. Whiteness and Tourism
11. Whiteness and Outdoor Leisure
12. Conclusions

Review on Whiteness and Leisure:
"Written in an engaging style, this original, astute and critical book will appeal to academics, researchers and students, and will likely become an important and well-read contribution to leisure studies." - Daniel Burdsey, Leisure Studies

Review of Spracklen’s previous monographs:
"Spracklen's two [previous] books (both of which apply a Habermasian perspective to the study of leisure) are probably the most important contributions to leisure scholarship so far in the twenty-first century." - Ken Roberts, Leisure Studies

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?is=9781137026699




Karl Spracklen, PhD
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