Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City
Dr Peter Bramham · Professor Stephen Wagg · Professor Brian Graham
Nov 2012 · Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Ebook
230
Pages
About this ebook
The widespread concept of the 'postmodern city' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture. In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism.
Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves – commercially, politically and spatially – over the past two decades. The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city.
About the author
Dr Peter Bramham is Reader in Leisure Studies and Professor Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Peter Bramham, Stephen Wagg, John Spink, Janet Douglas, Jonathan Long, Ian Strange, Ben Carrington, Karl Spracklen, Aarti Ratna.
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