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Geographies of Leisure

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This chapter rapidly shifts from acknowledging the more traditional arenas of geographical work in leisure studies to engage in a fuller discussion of new orientations and contributions that geography is making to leisure studies. Once understood as a support to much of leisure studies, an objective framework or reference for other disciplines, geography has developed, first through wider connections with a range of social sciences and humanities, a pivotal contribution to advances in leisure studies, in both conceptual insight and significant added value for application to.

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  1. David Crouch
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Faculty of Law and Social Science, Brunel University, West London, UK

    Chris Rojek

  2. Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Susan M. Shaw

  3. School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    A. J. Veal

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Crouch, D. (2006). Geographies of Leisure. In: Rojek, C., Shaw, S.M., Veal, A.J. (eds) A Handbook of Leisure Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625181_8

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