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Ways of Escape: Modern Transformation in Leisure and Travel
Author(s): Chris Rojek (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 24 May 1994
- Language: English
- Print length: 250 pages
- ISBN-10: 0847678989
- ISBN-13: 9780847678983
Book Description
Ways of Escape provides a history of leisure and travel and a cartography of “escape activity”. The author examines how pleasure has been managed from the middle ages to the present day, and examines the differences in leisure and travel opportunities for men and women. Rojek situates leisure and travel in the context of the debate on modernity and postmodernity, and uses examples drawn from Europe and North America to produce a dazzling analysis of the experience and ideology of escape in Western society.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Chris Rojek tells three stories in ^RWays of Escape^I, not serially, but neatly overlaid and interwoven. …the best book I have read… Rojek never simplifies or obscures his points. His language remains crisp and clear throughout… Contemporary Sociology
About the Author
Chris Rojek is senior editor in sociology at Routledge Publishers, London, and is the author of Capitalism and Leisure Theory and Social Work and Received Ideas and the editor of Leisure for Leisure.
