Karl Spracklen is Professor of Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has published papers on leisure, sport, tourism and identity and his previous publications include The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure and Sport and Challenges to Racism. New Books in Critical Theory have recently released a podcast about Professor Spracklen”s book Whiteness and Leisure . You can listen to the interview, between Professor Spracklen and Dr Dave O”Brien, here: http://newbooksincriticaltheory.com/2014/09/12/karl-spracklen-whiteness-and-leisure-palgrave-macmillan-2013/
8 Ebooki wg K. Spracklen
K. Spracklen: The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure
This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand …
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€90.94
J. Long & K. Spracklen: Sport and Challenges to Racism
With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts …
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€53.49
K. Spracklen: Constructing Leisure
This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history of leisure on its own in fact, it is im …
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€53.49
K. Spracklen: Whiteness and Leisure
This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and internationally-grounded range of leisure pra …
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€53.49
B. Lashua & K. Spracklen: Sounds and the City
This book explores the ways in which Western-derived music connects with globalization, hybridity, consumerism and the flow of cultures. Both as local terrain and as global crossroads, cities remain …
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€35.30
K. Spracklen: Making the Moral Case for Social Sciences
The social sciences have a legitimacy problem in the modern world. The natural sciences are viewed as 'proper science’ by journalists and policy-makers because they discover 'truths’, make money, and …
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€53.49
Karl Spracklen: Leisure, Sports & Society
The way we organise our free time can reveal a great deal about our identities and ideology. This book explores what our sports and leisure choices can tell us about the society in which we live. Com …
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€45.06
Karl Spracklen: Exploring Sports and Society
What is the relationship between sports and society? How can we understand sport in relation to physical activities, leisure and physical culture? In this far-reaching and inter-disciplinary textbook …
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€45.05
