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Tourism, leisure, sport : critical perspectives / edited by David Rowe & Geoffrey Lawrence.

Title: Tourism, leisure, sport : critical perspectives / edited by David Rowe & Geoffrey Lawrence.
Publication: Sydney : Hodder Education, 1998.

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232 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Part 1. Tourism -- 2. Tourist worlds as monocultures: Learning from the Gold Coast -- 3. Selling the Dreamtime: Aboriginal culture in Australian tourism -- 4. Australian casinos:" Gambling with tourism and leisure? -- 5. Urban tourism: The regional temptations of Honeysuckle -- 6. Ecotourism: Natue protected or nature commodified? -- 7. Tourism, 'Australianness' and Sydney 2000 -- Part 2. Leisure -- 8. The coming of the leisure society? Leisure time use in contemporary Australia -- 9. Leisure and ethnic diversity in Australia -- 10. Playing queer: Leisure in the lives of gay men -- 11. The art of the Games: Leisure, toursim and the Cultural Olympiad -- 12. Televiosns tour de force: The nation watches the Olympic Games -- 13. End of work or work without end? The 'problem' of leisure in Australia -- Part 3. Sport -- 14. Framing a critical sports sociology in the age of globalisaiton -- 15. Is the carnival over? Soccer support and hooliganism in Australia -- 16. Gender and organisational power in Australian sport -- 17. Scouting for boys: Sport looks at men -- 18. Global television: The Atlanta Olympics opening ceremony -- 19. Sydney 2000: Cargo cult of Australian sport?.

ISBN

0733607020

OCLC

39077640
SCSB-12335000

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