Tuesday, November 21, 2006

CFP: Whatever happened to The Leisure Society?

Whatever happened to The Leisure Society? Critical and Multidisciplinary [Retro]spectives

Hosted by The Chelsea School, University of Brighton, Eastbourne (UK)
3–5 JULY 2007

http://www.leisure-studies-association.info/LSAWEB/2007/Main.html

Call for papers – deadline January 10, 2007
For more information see the LSA 2007 web pages or contact conference administration:
LSA 2007 attn. M. McFee

The Chelsea School, University of Brighton Eastbourne BN20 7SP (UK)
e-mail: mcfee@solutions-inc.co.uk

LSA 2007 “Whatever happened to the leisure society?” aims to turn the leisure studies
multi-disciplinary gaze to the shifts in leisure practices, industries, cultures and economies over the past 30 years or so. The call for this timely reflection aims not only to consider work–leisure shifts but also seeks to evaluate developments in the theorising of leisure.

The conference is aimed at academics, including researchers, research students, and
lecturers in leisure studies, politics, economics, history, sociology, cultural studies, cultural policy, social policy and media studies. Practitioners in the leisure services (public, private and voluntary) will be attracted to the conference by distinctive policy and practice-based contributions. Practitioners from the cultural industries, including market researchers, industry analysts and cultural commentators, will also find the conference of interest.

Themes:
Post-industrialism, the knowledge economy and the ‘leisure society’
Post-work and post-youth Creative and cultural industries
Media economy Identity and consumption
Leisure practices and spaces Theories . . . and Open Stream

Speakers: CL Cole, Jennifer Hargreaves, Ian Henry, Kevin Hetherington,
Kate Oakley, Will Straw, Sue Thornham . . . and others to be confirmed

Committee: Joint Chair Jayne Caudwell and Alan Tomlinson
Members Paul Gilchrist, Steve Redhead, Belinda Wheaton
Leisure Studies Association is a Registered Charity No. 294997

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