This book brings together a collection of critical essays that challenge the existing dogma of leisure as an unmitigated social good, in order to examine the commodification and marketisation of leisure across a number of key sites. Leisure and consumer culture have become symbolic of the individual freedoms of liberal society, ostensibly presenting individuals with the opportunity to display individual creativity, cultural competence and taste. This book problematizes these assertions, and considers the range of harms that emerge in a consumer society predicated upon intense individualism and symbolic competition. Approaching the field of commodified leisure through the lens of social harm, this collection of essays pushes far beyond criminologys traditional interest in deviant forms of leisure, to consider the normalized social, interpersonal and environmental harms that emerge at the intersection of leisure and consumer capitalism. Capturing the current vitality and interdisciplinary scope of recent work which is underpinned by the deviant leisure perspective, this collection uses case studies, original research and other forms of empirical enquiry to scrutinise activities that range from alcohol consumption and gambling, to charity tourism; CrossFit training; and cosmetic pharmaceuticals. Drawn from researchers across the UK, US, Europe and Australia,Deviant Leisure: Criminological Perspectives on Leisure and Harmrepresents the first systematic attempt at a criminological consideration of the global harms of the leisure industry; firmly establishing leisure as a subject of serious criminological importance.
Part I Theoretical Perspectives 1 The Deviant Leisure Perspective: A Theoretical Introduction Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith 2 What lies beneath? Some notes on ultra-realism, and the intellectual foundations of the 'deviant leisure' perspective Simon Winlow 3 Consumptive and non-consumptive leisure and its fit with deviance Robert A. Stebbins 4 Real Ultras and Ultra Realism: Deviant Leisure Cultures, High Theory and Raw Realism Steve Redhead Part II Consuming Harm 5 'Be more VIP': Deviant Leisure and hedonistic excess in Ibiza's 'Disneyized' party spaces Keith Hayward and Tim Turner 6 Substance Use in the Night-Time Economy: Deviant Leisure? Tammy Ayres 7 Lifestyle Drugs and Late-Capitalism: A Topography of Harm Alexandra Hall 8 'The fittest on Earth': Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs within UK CrossFit Communities Katinka Van de Ven and Kyle J.D. Mulrooney Part III Digital Harms 9 From edgework to death drive: The pursuit of pleasure and denial of harm in a leisure society Rowland Atkinson 10 The Business of Resistance: Feminist pornography and the limits of leisure industries as sites of political resistance Corina Medley 11 Lifestyle Gambling in Accelerated Culture Thomas Raymen Part IV Environmental Harms 12 Loving the Planet to Death: Tourism and Ecocide Rob White 13 Luxury, Tourism and Harm: A Deviant Leisure Perspective Oliver Smith 14 Conspicuously Doing Charity: Exploring the relationship between 'doing good' and doing harm in tourism Jo Large Part V Harmful Spaces, Harmful Places 15 The Paradox of Parkour: Conformity, Resistance and Spatial Exclusion Thomas Raymen 16 Urban Exploration as Deviant Leisure Theo Kindynis 17 Holiday camps, prison time and confined escapism: Understanding leisure, pleasure and harm in prisons Kate Gooch and David Sheldon
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