{"product_id":"9783030745349","title":"Leisure Studies in a Global Era: Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLeisure Studies in a Global Era: Power and Control in a Modernising Landscape\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWoolsey, Ian\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has undergone a remarkable process of transformation during the last 30 years. Advance surveillance techniques, all seater-stadia, rising ticket prices,  and a growing intolerance to expressive modes of fandom have all transformed the experience of watching the professional game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThrough these five chapters, Ian Woolsey asks how the collective responses of  travelling football supporters to these major societal currents and changes within  the game; liquid modernity and the post-1989 transformation of English football,  are managed via the distinct and oft-competing processes of social spacing in  football. An important inspiration for the book is the work of Zygmunt Bauman,  particularly his ideas on cognitive, aesthetic, and moral ‘spacings’ as a social  production. Ian Woolsey’s powerful and persuasive application of these ideas not  only extends Bauman’s focus on the ‘politics’ of power in public space to include  a consideration of leisure but in so doing shows that ethnography, selectively  conducted and theoretically informed, can provide data for a rich, sociological  account of a football world. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book will be of interest to researchers and scholars of sociology of leisure,  sociology of sport, criminology, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2022-06-11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783030745349\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-030-74532-5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 170\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46547934806156,"sku":"9783030745349","price":116.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783030745349.jpg?v=1772933234","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030745349","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}