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.

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FEONA ATTWOOD is Principal Lecturer in Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK TERRY AUSTRIN is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand SHANE BLACKMAN is Reader in Cultural Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK CHAS CRITCHER is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Swansea, UK PHILIP DRAKE is Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland, UK PAUL GILCHRIST is a Research Fellow in the Chelsea School at the University of Brighton, UK RICHARD HAYNES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media and Journalism at Stirling University, UK and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute JOHN HORNE is Professor of Sport and Sociology at the University of Central Lancashire, UK BRETT LASHUA lectures in Leisure Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK NICOLE MATTHEWS lectures in Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University, Australia ANDY MIAH is Professor of Ethics and Emerging Technologies in the Faculty of Business and Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland, UK NIGEL MORGAN is Professor of Tourism Studies at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK JULIAN PETLEY is Professor of Film and Television at Brunel University in London, UK ANNETTE PRITCHARD is Professor and Director of Welsh Centre for Tourism Research, University of Wales InstituteCardiff, UK NEIL RAVENSCROFT is Professor of Land Economy at the University of Brighton, UK JACKIE WEST teaches in the Department of Sociology at Bristol University, UK

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Introduction: Unforbidden Fruit: From Leisure to Pleasure; P.Bramham & S.Wagg Choosing Leisure: Social Theory, Class and Generations; P.Bramham Double Measures: The Moral Regulation of Alcohol Consumption, Past and Present; C.Critcher Outdoor Recreation and the Environment; N.Ravenscroft & P.Gilchrist Television, Deregulation and the Reshaping of Leisure; P.Drake & R.Haynes Sex and the Citizens: Erotic Play and the New Leisure Culture; F.Attwood Rituals of Intoxication: Young People, Drugs, Risk and Leisure; S.Blackman States, Markets and New Media: the Contemporary Politics of Gambling; J.West & T.Austrin Towards Web 3.0: Mashing Up Work and Leisure; A.Miah Tourist Bodies, Transformation and Sensuality; A.Pritchard & N.Morgan 'They Can't Stop Us Laughing': Politics, Leisure and the Comedy Business; S.Wagg Noughties Reading; N.Matthews Sport and Lifestyle; J.Horne Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Music and Leisure in an Era of X Factor and Digital Pirates; B.Lashua Doublethink: The Confused and Contradictory Politics of Television Censorship in Britain; J.Petley Afterword: Closing Reflections on the New Politics of Leisure and Pleasure; P.Bramham & S.Wagg