Books by Tony Blackshaw

Concise yet critical, this is a student friendly introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of community studies.

Taking a fresh look the history of northern working-class life in the second half of the twentieth century, this book turns to the concept of generation and generational change. The author explores Zygmunt Bauman's bold vision of modern historical change as the shift from solid modernity to liquid modernity.

Captures the range of thought appropriate for scrutinizing the ambivalent idea of leisure. Analyzing key definitions, concepts and theories, this title offers the author's theory of liquid leisure, which asks some demanding questions about the present and the future of the idea in people's lives and its role in civil society.

The first full length dictionary of leisure studies, offering a critical survey of this increasingly popular and interdisciplinary field and incisive overviews of the key figures whose work exercises the most powerful influence on leisure studies today.

Leisure Life awakens the sociological imagination. It offers a new approach to the study of masculinity and the ethnography of leisure, making it appropriate for courses in sociology, leisure, cultural and gender studies.

This book provides the definitive concise introduction to Zygmunt Bauman. A well-written text, it assumes no prior knowledge of his work and should appeal to those wishing to explore the ideas of one of the world's most wide-ranging thinkers.