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This new volume will be available from LSA Publications in March 2004


LSA Publication No. 84

Leisure, Space and Visual Culture:
Practices and Meanings

ISBN: 0 906337 95 X

eds. Cara Aitchison and Helen Pussard

Non member ~ £34.75 +p/p
LSA Corporate (institutional) member ~ £29.00 +p/p
LSA Individual (private) member ~ £25.00 +p/p

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Eastbourne BN20 8AS (UK)

Companion volume:
Leisure, Media and Visual Culture: Representations and Contestations
LSA Publication No. 83, ISBN 0 906337 94 1


LSA No. 84 Contents

Preface: Leisure, Visual Culture and the 'Spatial Turn'          James Kneale

Editors' Introduction          Cara Aitchison and Helen Pussard

I      The Spatial Politics of Visual Culture

The Rules of Culture: Exhibition and the Politics of Knowledge
          Tony Bennett

Buying Time and Space: a Critical Appraisal of Sport and Leisure Consumption in the 'New' Belfast
          Alan Bairner and Peter Shirlow

"A Relic of Bygone Days"? The Temporal Landscapes of Pleasure Grounds           
          Helen Pussard

II     Memory and Heritage in Visual Culture

Seeing Places: A Critique of the Heritage Trail as a Visual Interpretation of Place
          Nicola E. Macleod

Tourist Perception of the Heritage on Show in Relation to their own Heritage - a Key to Better Management and Understanding of Heritage Tourism
          Yaniv Poria, Richard Butler and David Airey

Memory and Visual Culture: Visitors' Recollections and Repeat Visiting Intentions
          Kirsten Holmes

III    Cityscapes, Leisurescapes and Dreamscapes

Mass-participation Running: Sport as Contemporary Urban Spectacle?
          Jacqueline Tivers

Space and Leisure as Regenerative Elements of an Urban Cityscape: The Case of the Centre for Dundee Contemporary Arts
          Marialaura Di Domenico and Francesco Di Domenico

Metaphorical and Physical Leisure Spaces: Women, Pleasure and the UK National Lottery
          Emma Casey

IV     Leisure as Seeing, Leisure as Being

The Highland Society of the Spectacle: Regulating Bodies and Figuring The National Heritage
at The Highland Games
          Dan Knox

Visualising The Environment: Diverse Ways of 'Seeing' and Knowing in the Outdoors
          Kim Polistina

A Search for Idyllic Places of Leisure in the East: Recreation of the Vernacular Culture and the
Traditional Social Space in Sri Lanka
          Ranjith Dayaratne