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PRESENTERS
Alzua-Sorzabal et al.
Best
Bhatti
Bissix et al.
Bramham
Bruce
Burdsey
Caen & Lievens
Carrington & Bramham
Carter
Cock et al.
Cohen
Collins & Pitchford
Craike
Crouch
Davidson
Delamere
Donohoe & Needham
Downs
Ehsani & Abodarda
Elkington
Fishwick
Fox
Gilchrist

Gomes

Grossman et al.

Gustavo

Hales

Haydock

Hayler

Haynes
Holmes & Beebeejaun
Horne
Jeanes
Judd
Kagermeier & Arleth
Kay
Kim
Kirby
Lade
Lin, J-H. et al.
Lin, W-R and Tsaur
Liu, Taylor & Shibli
Longden
Lusted
Merkel
Miles
Murayama
Nelson
Newmeyer
Nichols & Taylor
North
Pownall & Jones
Price
Pussard & Snape
Raisborough
Raisborough & Bhatti
Reid
Robinson
Ryan
Samdahl
Saraniemi & Kylänen
Smith
Snape & Binks
Spracklen
Stalker
Stebbins
Taylor
Trussell
Veal
Wang
Waring
Watson, B
Watson, P. & Morgan
Wong & Horne
Worthington et al.
Young
Yuen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Whatever happened to the LEISURE SOCIETY?
Critical and multidisciplinary [retro]spectives
July 3-5, 2007 Hosted by The Chelsea School
University of Brighton, Eastbourne UK
     

PARALLEL SESSIONS PROGRAMME
Parallel Session 1 (A-E)   Tuesday 3rd July   1.30--3.00

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ROOM G 14  1 A      THEORIES . . . Chaired by Dan Burdsey
1.30--2.00 1 A i Helen Pussard* and Dr. Bob Snape** (Roehampton University London, UK; **University of Bolton, UK) Leisure Before Leisure Studies: Historicising the Leisure Society Debate
2.00--2.30 1 A ii Dr Karl Spracklen (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Understanding the Importance of Leisure at the End of Modernity: Habermasian Rationalities and Actions and the Future of Leisure Studies
2.30--3.00 1 A iii Dr. Ben Carrington* and Dr. Peter Bramham** (*University of Texas at Austin, USA; **Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Disciplining Race: Leisure Studies and the Absent Politics of Race
 ROOM 116  1 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES (I) . . . Chaired by Mark Bhatti
1.30--2.00 1 B i Prof. Glyn Bissix, Nick Baker and Liesel Carlsson (Acadia University, Canada) Homeland Security Impact on a Leisure and Cultural Space: the Roosevelt Campobello International Park
2.00--2.30 1 B ii Nuno Silva Gustavo (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal) Between Health and Wellness Tourism --One Space, Different Leisure Concepts
2.30--3.00 1 B iii Dr. Diane M. Samdahl (University of Georgia, USA) When Government Fails: Leisure and Collective Action in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
 ROOM H 113   1 D      POST INDUSTRIALISM . . . Chaired by Belinda Wheaton
1.30--2.00 1 D i Robert Hales (Griffith University, Australia) Is Green Civil Leisure in Decline? A Case Study of the Issues Facing Effective Green Civil Leisure Engagement in Political Processes in Australia
2.00--2.30 1 D ii Dr. Rui Gomes (University of Coimbra, Lisbon, Portugal) Identity and Consumption in Body Exercise
2.30--3.00 1 D iii
 ROOM H 210   1 E      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES (II) . . . Chaired by Tom Carter
1.30--2.00 1 E i Fiona Reid (University of Stirling, UK) Sports Geography: Understanding a Local Sports Space
2.00--2.30 1 E ii Dr. Andreas Kagermeier & Jennifer Arleth (University of Trier, Germany) Towards New Dimensions of Staging Cultural Heritage as Leisure and Tourist Attraction -- Reflecting the Campaign "Enjoying Culture in the Trier Area"
2.30--3.00 1 E iii
Parallel Session 2 (A-E)    Tuesday 3rd July    3.30--5.00

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ROOM G 14   2 A      KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY AND EDUCATION. . . Chaired by Bob Snape
3.30--4.00 2 A i Deborah Pownall and Dr. Marian Jones (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Whose Course Is It? Planning a Curriculum for Employers and Higher Education
4.00--4.30 2 A ii Bill Taylor (Manchester Metropolitan University, Chester, UK)   Notions of Professionalism: Conversations with Sport Coaches
4.30--5.00 2 A iii
ROOM 110  2 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES . . . Chaired by Paul Gilchrist
3.30--4.00 2 B i Dr. Lee Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)) Travelling Light in Hostile Country: Mountaineering, Commitment and the Leisure Lifestyle
4.00--4.30 2 B ii Dr. Sandra Kirby (University of Winnepeg, Canada) Prairie Storm Cross Country Ski Team: the Phenomenon of Master's Women's Ski Racers in the Coldest City in the World
4.30--5.00 2 B iii Dawn E. Trussell (University of Waterloo, Canada) Canada's Changing Rural Landscape: Its Impact on Young Women's Leisure Experiences
ROOM 116  2 C      IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION . . . Chaired by Jayne Caudwell
3.30--4.00 2 C i Dr. Tom Carter (The Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK) Pelota en la Plaza: Contesting Urban Spaces and Performing Masculinity in Havana
4.00--4.30 2 C ii Barry Judd (Monash University, Australia) National Game, National Identity: Indigenizing Australian Football for National Consumption
4.30--5.00 2 C iii Dr. Aurkene Alzua-Sorzabal, Basagaitz Guereño-Omil, Adriana Hernández-Castillo & Markel Mendizabal-Elias (University of Deusto, Spain) The Influence of Cross-border Mobility and Leisure Consumption on the Identity of Cross-border Regions Inhabitants: the case of the Basque Eurocity
ROOM 113  2 D      POST WORK . . . Chaired by Belinda Wheaton
3.30--4.00 2 D i Dr Amanda Waring (Loughborough University, UK) Working Out: Health Club Use and the Creation of a 'Workstyle' Amongst Professional City-Workers
4.00--4.30 2 D ii Melinda Young (Murdoch University, Australia) Regulating Fatness: Moving Bodies in a Post Leisure Society
4.30--5.00 2 D iii Dr. Mark Bhatti and (University of Brighton, UK) Just Pottering About? Healthy Leisure in the Garden
ROOM 210  2 E      CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES . . . Chaired by Noreen Orr
3.30--4.00 2 E i Dr. Beccy Watson (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Consumption, Pleasure and Desire: Exploring The International Bollywood Awards 2007 as Signifiers of Multi-ethnic Britain
4.00--4.30 2 E ii Dr. Clare Lade (La Trobe University, Australia) The Importance of Developing Networks in the Leisure Industry: Attitudes to Competition along Australia's Murray River
4.30--5.00 2 E iii Ching-Yi Wang (National Yunlin University, Taiwan) A Turning Point of Taiwan's Embroidery Industry
Parallel Session 3 (A-E)   Wednesday 4th July    9.00--10.30

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ROOM G 14   3 A      MEDIA ECONOMY . . . Chaired by John Doyle
9.00--9.30 3 A i Donna Wong and Dr. John Horne (University of Edinburgh, UK) Sport and New Media Leisure Technology
9.30--10.00 3 A ii Dr. Fern Delamere (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) Game On: Female Digital 'Gamers' Breaking Through
10.00--10.30 3 A iii Holly M. Donohoe and Roger D. Needham (University of Ottawa, Canada) Internet-based Ecotourism Marketing in Canada: One Thing in Theory, Another in Practice?
ROOM 110  3 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES . . . Chaired by Jayne Caudwell
9.00--9.30 3 B i Prof. David Crouch (Derby University, UK) Revisiting Leisure Practices and Spaces as Journeys
9.30--10.00 3 B ii Dr. Jayne Raisborough and Dr. Mark Bhatti (University of Brighton, UK) The Hoover in the Garden: Women's Leisure and Auto/Biography
10.00--10.30 3 B iii Trent S. Newmeyer (Brock University, Canada) Knit One, Stitch Two, Protest Three! - Leisure, Crafts and Resistance
ROOM H 116  3 C      IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION . . . Chaired by Noreen Orr
9.00--9.30 3 C i Dr. Barry Worthington and Mrs. Pat Sedakat (Abertay University, Dundee, UK) 'The Beat of a Different Drum' - Historical Re-enactment as a Leisure Occupation
9.30--10.00 3 C ii Kenneth Longden (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Retro is Not Nostalgia
10.00--10.30 3 C iii Ms.Nicky Ryan (University of the Arts, London, UK) The Art of the Luxury Hotel
ROOM H 113  3 D      POST INDUSTRIALISM . . . Chaired by Steve Redhead
9.00--9.30 3 D i Dr. Peter Bramham (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) Routing the Leisure Project
9.30--10.00 3 D ii Sean Smith (European Graduate School, Switzerland) The Overexposed Stadium? Virilio and the Postmodern Sportscape
10.00--10.30 3 D iii Prof. Tim Robinson (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) Explaining the Vicious Circle of Overwork and Over Consumption
ROOM H 210  3 E      CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES . . . Chaired by Graham McFee
9.00--9.30 3 E i Wei-Rung Lin and Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur (National Chiayi University, Taiwan) Conceptualization of Perceived Challenge in Leisure Activity
9.30--10.00 3 E ii Ms. Saila Saraniemi and Ms. Mika Kylänen (University of Joensuu, Finland) Tourism Destination under Construction. Adopting a New Paradigm of Marketing
10.00--10.30 3 E iii Dr. Don Cock, Dr. Iain Adams, Dr. Adrian Ibbetson, Dr. Phil Baugh (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) The Impact of the Physical Leisure Environment on Client Adherence
Parallel Session 4 (A-E)   Wednesday 4th July    1.30--3.00

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ROOM G 14   4 A      THEORIES . . . Chaired by . . . Chaired by Jayne Caudwell
1.30--2.00 4 A i Dr. Melinda J. Craike (Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia) The Buffering Effect of Enjoyment and Participation in Leisure-Time Physical Activity on the Depression of Mothers of Infants
2.00--2.30 4 A ii Scott Cohen (University of Otago, New Zealand) A Conceptual Understanding of the Perceived Search for Self in the Long-term Travel Lifestyle
2.30--3.00 4 A iii Sam Elkington (University of Bedfordshire, UK) Taking the Flow of Leisure Seriously: a Theoretical Extension of Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Framework
ROOM 110  4 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES . . . Chaired by Alan Tomlinson
1.30--2.00 4 B i Dr. John Horne (The University of Edinburgh, UK) 'Starchitects', Sports Mega-Events and the Shaping of Urban Modernity
2.00--2.30 4 B ii Dr. Carolyn Downs (Manchester Metropolitan University The Changing Face of Gambling: the Gambling Act (2007) and Working Class Gambling Cultures
2.30--3.00 4 B iii Gary P. Best (La Trobe University Australia) Between the Covers -- Reconfiguring Marginal Cultural Processes and Spaces as Mainstream via the Sex Tourism Literature
ROOM H 116  4 C      IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION . . . Chaired by Jayne Raisborough
1.30--2.00 4 C i Claire Bruce (Northumbria University, UK) Organisation Performance Measurement
2.00--2.30 4 C ii Dr. Mohammad Ehsani and Zainab Abodarda (Tarbiat University, Iran) Why Sponsors Did Not Support Women's Sport in Esfahan
2.30--3.00 4 C iii Dr. Arnold H. Grossman*, Dr. Anthony R. D'Augelli **and Dr. Steven Hubbard* (*New York University, NY, USA). **Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA Safe and Unsafe Recreational Sexual Experiences and their Correlates among Gay and Bisexual Male Youth with Post-AIDS Identities
ROOM H 113  4 D      POST INDUSTRIALISM . . . Chaired by John Doyle
1.30--2.00 4 D i Dr. Meiko Murayama (University of Greenwich, London, UK) Declining traditional Onsen resorts in Japan: open systems, changing times and the challenges for tourism resorts
2.00--2.30 4 D ii Dr. Udo Merkel (Roehampton University London, UK) What Leisure? -- The Politics of Sport Diplomacy and Identity in Divided Korea
2.30--3.00 4 D iii
ROOM H 210  4 E      POST WORK . . . Chaired by Dan Burdsey
1.30--2.00 4 E i Paul Gilchrist and Prof. Neil Ravenscroft (University of Brighton, UK) The Emerging Working Society of Leisure
2.00--2.30 4 E ii Jo-Hui Lin*, Huei-Ju Hsu**, and Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur*** (*National Kaohsiung Hospital College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; **Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan; ***National Chiayi University, Chiayi City, Taiwan) Conceptualization of Work-leisure Conflict
2.30--3.00 4 E iii Young -Sun Kim (Korea University, South Korea The Restructuring of Labor Time Regime in South Korea
Parallel Session 5 (A-E)    Thursday 5th July    9.00--10.30

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ROOM G 14   5 A      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES (I) . . . Chaired by Alan Tomlinson
9.00--9.30 5 A i Dr. Garry Price (La Trobe University, Australia)) Not Enough Leisure Time to Volunteer: A Study of the Relationship Between Leisure Time And Tourism Organisation Volunteering in an Australian Regional Community
9.30--10.00 5 A ii Maya Caen and John Lievens (Ghent University, Belgium) Tourism and Identity: The Social Structuring of Travel Preferences and Travel Behaviour in Flanders
10.00--10.30 5 A iii
ROOM 110  5 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES (II) . . . Chaired by Paul Gilchrist
9.00--9.30 5 B i Dr. Kristin Holmes* and Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun** (*University of Surrey, UK), **University of Manchester, UK) Practising Leisure in Urban Public Space
9.30--10.00 5 B ii Prof. Ernest John North (University of Praetoria, South Africa) A Pricing Perspective on the Leisure Experiences of Visitors to a South African Game Park: A Conjoint Study
10.00--10.30 5 B iii
ROOM H 116  5 C      IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION . . . Chaired by Beccy Watson
9.00--9.30 5 C i Dr. Lesley Fishwick, Dr. Elizabeth Sillence, Prof. Pamela Briggs and Dr. Peter Harris (Northumbria University, UK) Women's Identity and Consumption of Health Discourses on the Internet
9.30--10.00 5 C ii Dr. Jayne Raisborough (University of Brighton, UK) Inside a Serious Leisure Career: Women Sea Cadets' Experiences of Serious Leisure Participation
10.00--10.30 5 C iii Dr. Ruth Jeanes (Loughborough University, UK) 'When I play football it is different'. Redefining Sporting Space: Girls' Experiences of Football
ROOM H 113  5 D      POST INDUSTRIALISM . . . Chaired by Dan Burdsey
9.00--9.30 5 D i Prof. Mike Collins and Andy Pitchford (University of Gloucestershire, UK) Back to the Future? Sport and Faith Communities
9.30--10.00 5 D ii Dr. Glenn Stalker (Brock University, Ontario, Canada) Multinational Trends in Family Activities: Late Modern Change and New Diversities in Family Life
10.00--10.30 5 D iii Jim Lusted (University of Leicester, UK) Amateurism, Leisure and Equity Policy: Resisting Race Equality in English Local Football Governance
Parallel Session 6 (A-E)   Thursday 5th July 1.30--3.00

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ROOM G 14   6 A      METHODOLOGIES . . . Chaired by Mark Bhatti
1.30--2.00 6 A i Will Haydock (Bournemouth University, UK) Understanding 'Binge' Drinking: The Case for Ethnography
2.00--2.30 6 A ii Felice Yuen (University of Waterloo, Canada) Kicking and Screaming: From Constructivism to Critical Theory
2.30--3.00 6 A iii Yi-De Liu, Prof. Peter Taylor and Simon Shibli (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) The Operational Efficiency of English Public Sport Facilities
ROOM 110  6 B      LEISURE PRACTICES AND SPACES . . . Chaired by Ben Carrington
1.30--2.00 6 B i Dr. Bob Snape and Dr. Phil Binks Post Sport? Alternative Cultural Interpretations of Physical Activity
2.00--2.30 6 B ii Dr. Dan Burdsey (Chelsea School, University of Brighton, UK) Faded Seaside Glamour? Whiteness and the racialisation of leisure spaces on the East Sussex coast
2.30--3.00 6 B iii Dr. Steve Hayler (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) Live Entertainment at the Seaside -- How Far a Part of the Cultural Offer?
ROOM H 116  6 C      IDENTITY AND CONSUMPTION . . . Chaired by Paul Gilchrist
1.30--2.00 6 C i Prof. Robert A. Stebbins (University of Calgary, Canada) Leisure and Consumption: Not Always the Same
2.00--2.30 6 C ii Pamela Watson and Mike Morgan (Bournemouth University, UK) The Changing Nature of the Leisure Experience: Food Blogging as Serious Leisure
2.30--3.00 6 C iii Dr. Steven Miles (University of Liverpool, UK) What Ever Happened to the City?: 'Experience' Economies and the Commodification of Pleasure
ROOM H 113  6 D      POST WORK . . . Chaired by Belinda Wheaton
1.30--2.00 6 D i Dr. Karen Fox, Dr. Brett Lashua and Zac Robinson (University of Alberta, Canada) Hip-Hop is Dead (Long Live Hip-Hop)! Leisure and International Hip-Hop Movements
2.00--2.30 6 D ii Dr. Wade Nelson (McGill University, Montreal, Canada Working Hard at Leisure is Professional: The BMX Freestyle Cycling Pro
2.30--3.00 6 D iii
ROOM H 210  6 E      POST INDUSTRIALISM . . . Chaired by Peter Bramham
1.30--2.00 6 E i Dr. Geoff Nichols and Prof. Peter Taylor (University of Sheffield, UK) What is Happening to Sports Volunteers in the Leisure Society?
2.00--2.30 6 E ii Prof. A.J. Veal (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Working Hours and the Desire for Leisure and Consumption
2.30--3.00 6 E iii Dr. Tess Kay (Loughborough University, UK) Family Leisure, What leisure? Juggle and Struggle in the Leisure Society
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