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Trade Paperback. Condición: Mint. First Edition. THE NEW POLITICS OF LEISURE AND PLEASURE Peter Bramham & Stephen Wagg. Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2010 First edition ISBN 9780230216846 280pp Trade Paperback. This copy is in mint, unread condition, bright, white, tight and square, in illustrated card covers as issued. This book explores the new politics of leisure and pleasure in relation to a range of popular activities. Current generations in Western societies are essentially recipients of the changes that the Sixties fabled decade of sex, drugs and rock n' roll - left behind. In their leisure lives - whether drinking, reading, surfing the net, taking drugs, going to a comedy gig, watching TV, taking a holiday, downloading music, supporting a football club, having a bet, having sex or simply roaming the countryside people seem to enjoy unprecedented freedoms. But what are these freedoms? How are they exercised? And to what extent have traditional controls been relinquished? Ref BB2.…