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  • Animal Entanglements in Tourism and Leisure

    Questions of Power, Relationality, and Obligations

    Series series Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality
    This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them.International in both its coverage and appeal, the volume includes a diverse range of case studies ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Inclusion and Equity in Outdoor Leisure

    Whose Body Belongs?

    Edited by Dr Mandi Baker, Neil Carr ...
    Drawing on a variety of perspectives, personal narratives, geographies and approaches, this book challenges dominant discourses of outdoor leisure, associated theoretical approaches and modes of representation regarding the access, inclusion and social justice of minoritised participants. We consider concepts like privilege, power, and empowerment to present a range of outdoor leisure experiences ... Read more

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  • Social Tourism

    Global Challenges and Approaches

    Social tourism - the practice of offering programmes, events and activities to enable disadvantaged population groups to enjoy tourism - is of increasing interest to academia. Beginning with an introduction to the social tourism concept, its relevance and target groups, this book then provides reflections about emerging topics case studies of programmes in action across Europe, Oceania and the ... Read more

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  • Innovation and Impact of Sex as Leisure in Research and Practice

    Edited by Liza Berdychevsky, Neil Carr ...
    This book responds to the need to investigate the complex links between sex and leisure and their implications for research and practice. Understanding sex as leisure aligns with sex-positive culture that focuses on affirming pleasure in the contemporary sexual discourse and advocating for sexual diversity, freedom, empowerment, and fulfilling sex lives.The focus of this book is on analyzing the ... Read more

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  • Leisure Activities in the Outdoors

    Learning, Developing and Challenging

    The benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation). These benefits include the development of: health and wellbeing; social skills; leadership and facilitation skills; personal, emotional and reflective abilities; confidence and identity creation. Drawing on a variety of ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Animal Welfare

    "This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship between our species and the others which share this planet with us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change, Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the context and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Dogs in the Leisure Experience

    by Neil Carr ...
    This book explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of what are dogs and what is leisure. It looks at how working dogs play a significant role in leisure experiences such as ensuring the safety of air transport, and considers the differing roles and changing acceptance of dogs’ involvement in sport. Within the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it examines the ... Read more

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  • Domestic Animals, Humans, and Leisure

    Rights, Welfare, and Wellbeing

    Edited by Janette Young, Neil Carr ...
    Series series Routledge Research in the Ethics of Tourism Series
    Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental wellbeing of humans. The interplay of human and animal experiences of justice, wellbeing, rights, and roles within leisure is the central theme of this book. Research explores the position of domesticated animals in human leisure experiences, in a wide array of leisure settings. ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Archaeology

    Sustainable Meeting Grounds

    Edited by Cameron Walker, Neil Carr ...
    The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers, politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors from ... Read more

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  • Children, Families and Leisure

    Edited by Neil Carr, Heike Schänzel ...
    This book aims to further academic debate within the leisure and tourism studies community about the role of ‘families’ in contemporary life and the experiences of families and their children in the leisure environment. It is based on the recognition of the diverse nature of the family in the contemporary era and the position of children in families and society in general as active and knowing ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Wild Animals and Leisure

    Rights and Wellbeing

    Edited by Neil Carr, Janette Young ...
    Series series Routledge Research in the Ethics of Tourism Series
    Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure experience. They are a significant part of the leisure industry and are economically valuable entities. However, as sentient beings, animals also have rights and welfare needs, and, like humans, may also have their own leisure desires and requirements. This collection provides an in-depth analysis of the rights and welfare of humans and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Domestic Animals and Leisure

    Edited by Neil Carr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume offers both an insight into the current state of research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the contributions to the collection are underpinned by ongoing debates about human-animal relationships and the rights and welfare of the latter. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD