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Modern life is often described as an iron cage from which there is no escape. But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony. However what kind of escape is tolerated in modern society? How is it shaped by historical expectations of leisure and travel? And what do we actually experience when we engage in leisure or travel activity? This fascinating and accomplished book tries to supply answers to these questions. A major scholarly contribution to the sociological analysis of leisure, pleasure and travel, Dr Rojek's study is a radical challenge to the existing paradigmatic orthodoxy. Bryan S. Turner, University of Essex.
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CHRIS ROJEK
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Book Title: Ways of Escape
Book Subtitle: Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel
Authors: Chris Rojek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373402
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Chris Rojek 1993
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-47578-2Published: 23 June 1993
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37340-2Published: 23 June 1993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 251
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Cultural Studies