`This book confirms David Harris' status as a leading theorist in contemporary culture and leisure in the UK. He offers a distinctive, coherent and authoritative guide to the major concepts and debates that should engage leisure scholars and scholarship' - Dr Peter Bramham, Senior Lecturer in Leisure Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University

Introduction
Adding Leisure Values
Articulation
Authenticity
Bodies
Cultural Capital
Disciplinary Apparatuses
Disneyfication
Ecstasy
Education as Leisure
Effects Analysis
Escape
Ethnography
Fantasy
Figurationalism
Food
Functionalism
Gazes
Gender
Gramscianism
Heritage
Hyperreality
Identities
Ideology
Illegal Leisure
Leisure Policy
McDonaldization
Narratives
Pleasures
Pornography
Postmodernism
Posts
Race and Leisure
Semiotics
Shopping
Social Class
Virtual Leisure
Visitor Interpretation
Work-Leisure Relationships
Youth Subcultures

David Harris is Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth