The New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure

This Book Explores The New Politics Of Leisure And Pleasure In Relation To A Range Of Popular Activities. Current Generations In Western Societies Are Essentially Recipients Of The Changes That The Sixties - Fabled Decade Of Sex, Drugs And Rock N' Roll - Left Behind. In Their Leisure Lives - Whether Drinking, Reading, Surfing The Net, Taking Drugs, Going To A Comedy Gig, Watching Tv, Taking A Holiday, Downloading Music, Supporting A Football Club, Having A Bet, Having Sex Or Simply Roaming The Countryside - People Seem To Enjoy Unprecedented Freedoms. But What Are These Freedoms? How Are They Exercised? And To What Extent Have Traditional Controls Been Relinquished?--back Cover. Unforbidden Fruit : From Leisure To Pleasure / Peter Bramham And Stephen Wagg -- Choosing Leisure : Social Theory, Class And Generations / Peter Bramham -- Double Measures : The Moral Regulation Of Alcohol Consumption, Past And Present / Chas Critcher -- Outdoor Recreation And The Environment / Neil Ravenscroft And Paul Gilchrist -- Television, Deregulation And The Reshaping Of Leisure / Philip Drake And Richard Haynes -- Sex And The Citizens : Erotic Play And The New Leisure Culture / Feona Attwood -- Rituals Of Intoxication : Young People, Drugs, Risk And Leisure / Shane Blackman -- States, Markets And New Media : The Contemporary Politics Of Gambling / Jackie West And Terry Austrin -- Towards Web 3.0 : Mashing Up Work And Leisure / Andy Miah -- Tourist Bodies, Transformation And Sensuality / Annette Pritchard And Nigel Morgan -- 'they Can't Stop Us Laughing'; Politics, Leisure And The Comedy Business / Stephen Wagg -- Noughties Reading / Nicole Matthews -- Sport And Lifestyle / John Horne -- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea : Music And Leisure In An Era Of X Factor And Digital Pirates / Brett Lashua -- Doublethink : 'deregulation', Censure And 'adult-sex' On Television / Julian Petley -- Afterword : Closing Reflections On The New Politics Of Leisure And Pleasure / Peter Bramham And Stephen Wagg. Edited By Peter Bramham And Stephen Wagg. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure....Pages 1-10 Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations....Pages 11-31 Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol Consumption, Past and Present....Pages 32-44 Outdoor Recreation and the Environment....Pages 45-62 Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure....Pages 63-81 Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture....Pages 82-96 Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk and Leisure....Pages 97-118 States, Markets and New Media: The Contemporary Politics of Gambling....Pages 119-135 Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work and Leisure....Pages 136-152 Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality....Pages 153-168 ‘They Can’t Stop Us Laughing’; Politics, Leisure and the Comedy Business....Pages 169-194 Noughties Reading....Pages 195-210 Sport and Lifestyle....Pages 211-224 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in an Era of X Factor and Digital Pirates....Pages 225-244 Doublethink: ‘Deregulation’, Censure and ‘Adult-Sex’ on Television....Pages 245-267 Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure....Pages 268-269 Back Matter....Pages 270-280 This book is about the new politics of leisure and pleasure - the values, practices, struggles and contradictions that now characterize the social worlds of rambling, drinking, tourism, sex, watching TV, gambling, using the internet, reading, comedy, sport, popular music and censorship. This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties -- fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left behind. In their leisure lives -- whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside -- people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished?