A J Veal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4151697 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A J Veal |
| NOMBRES | A J |
| APELLIDO | Veal |
| FIRMA | VEAL A J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1082-0080 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Artificial intelligence and leisure rights
A recent article by Nick Pitas in Leisure Sciences raises the question as to whether robots – or ‘sentient artificial intelligence’ entities – should, as they become increasingly ‘human-like’, be accorded rights, including leisure rights. This paper critically examines this proposition, raising issues concerned with the definition of ‘rights’ and of ‘leisure’, the plausibility of a future dystopian scenario involved ‘utility monsters’ and the val…
Leisure rights and social theory
Everyday life and Everyday Leisure
A substantial body of theory exists on the concept of everyday life, including the sociology of everyday life, but it has barely featured in the mainstream of the sociological study of leisure or leisure studies more broadly. This paper explores this theoretical work and considers the place of leisure in it, and how it might inform the further development of the study of leisure. It is argued that the time is right to broaden the scope of leisure…
Leisure and Human Rights … or Social Justice
This paper notes the recent increased interest of leisure researchers in the concepts of human rights and social justice, with social justice being particularly favored by North America researchers. Since both concepts concern the just treatment and well-being of individuals and social groups in contemporary society, the paper aims to establish whether they represent distinctly different approaches to analysis or are overlapping in meaning and po…
The 4-day work-week
Current campaigns for a four-day, 32-hour standard working week to replace the five-day, 40-hour model have attracted the attention of employers, trade unions, political parties, governments and the communications media but, seemingly, not of leisure scholars. This is in contrast to the leisure society concept of the 1960s/1970s, some versions of which anticipated a 30-hour working week. This paper examines the 4-day work-week proposition from a …
Leisure and human rights special interest group
Book notes
Holding governments to account for leisure rights
Leisure is recognized as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the World Leisure Organisation’s recently revised Charter for Leisure. However, it has been neglected in the UN’s mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation nation states’ compliance with human rights obligations under the terms of the relevant international treaties. Until very recently, leisure rights have also been neglected by the leisure research communi…
Leisure and human rights
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declared leisure time and cultural participation to be human rights, but the idea of leisure rights has not featured significantly in the field of leisure studies, including the sociology of leisure. The recent revision of the World Leisure Organisation’s Charter for Leisure provides an opportunity to reconsider this omission. The article comprises five main sections: an introduction to the pl…
Cultural participation as a human right
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares participation in the cultural life of the community to be a human right. This is confirmed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is a treaty under international law. This commits states to reporting regularly to the UN on their record in upholding the covenanted rights. While states are held to account in regard to high profile human rights by non-government…
Sport and human rights
Participation in sport is recognised as a human right under the terms of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), as a component of 'participation in the cultural life of the community'. It has also been declared a human right in the Council of Europe's Sport for All Charter, the UNESCO International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport and the Olympic Charter. UN member states which have ratified the…
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Capitalism, fascism, communism, social democracy and the study of leisure
This paper comments on an earlier paper by Ken Roberts published in the World Leisure Journal in which he analysed the relationship between research and commentary on leisure and the tensions generated by international political environments in three periods: 1900-1939; 1945-1989; and the post-1990, post-communism, era. This paper challenges Roberts' thesis that international political environments in the respective periods significantly affected…
Leisure and human rights
This paper introduces the recent revision of the WLO Charter for Leisure. It presents the background and underlying reasons for the revision, positions the Charter in the global human rights system, and examines its potentially significant role in leisure policy, research and practice. References are made to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which includes leisure-related rights, and the International Covenant on Ec…
Book Notes
International assessment of the right to leisure time
Time for “rest and leisure” is one of the human rights established by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESR). Countries which ratify the ICESR are expected to account for their performance in achieving the human rights set out in the covenant in periodic reports to the United Nations. This should include statistical indicators as appropriate. Country reports have, t…
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A critique of serious leisure as theory
The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) divides leisure activity into three forms: serious, casual and project-based, each with a number of distinguishing qualities, rewards, costs and benefits. It is presented by its creator, Robert Stebbins, as both a classification system and a theoretical framework. In its early history, it was seen as a micro-level, or at most meso-level, construct concerned with the behaviour of individuals and small groups. …
Leisure and the Future
First published in 1987. In the context of the debate about the changing structure of modem economies, the growth of leisure, and the place of work and leisure in society, this book reviews the ‘state of the art’ of leisure forecasting and the study of leisure futures. It traces man's concern with future leisure from classical and utopian writings to science fiction and ‘futurology’. Contemporary issues such as attitudes towards work and leisure,…
Is there enough leisure time? Leisure studies, work-life balance, the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom
In economically advanced countries in recent years, working hours of many full-time employees have been static or increasing and there has been talk of people suffering from a “time squeeze”. Researchers in the field of leisure studies have not featured strongly in debates surrounding this issue, having generally shown little interest in the work-leisure time relationships since the 1970s, being preoccupied instead with leisure activity, meaning …
Joffre Dumazedier and the definition of leisure
One of the most widely cited definitions of leisure is that presented by Joffre Dumazedier, originally published in 1962 and based on three functions of leisure identified in his empirical research in France. Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, aspects of the English translation of the definition, published in the USA in 1967, are found to be inappropriate and misleading. Second, attention is drawn to the unexplained omission of expe…
Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society
The idea of a ‘leisure society’ was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely. The leisure society has clearly not been realised. On the contrary: contemporary industrial societies seem to be characterised by a shortage of time, experienced as ‘time squeeze’ and stress. …
Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism
Now in its 5th edition, Research Methods for Leisure and Tourism has become the ultimate reference text for both students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and practising managers. This book combines comprehensive coverage of a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods with step-by step guidance through research software including Excel, SPSS and NVivo
Leisure, sport and tourism, politics, policy and planning
This book is concerned with the activities of policy making and planning as carried out by governments and associated agencies in the field of leisure, sport and tourism. It consists of 18 chapters organized in five parts with the following headings: (i) society, politics, policy and planning; (ii) planning frameworks; (iii) planning tools; (iv) evaluation; and (v) sectors, groups and issues. As well as updating reference sources, data and politi…
The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure
The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This article evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP concerning social worlds, identification, and optimal leisure lifestyles is found to be generally untested because it has been developed in relation …
The Serious Leisure Perspective and the Experience of Leisure
The serious leisure perspective (SLP), which divides leisure activities into three distinct forms (serious, casual, and project-based), has been developed by Robert Stebbins over the last 40 years. This article evaluates the perspective as theory and as a typology. The theory associated with the SLP concerning social worlds, identification, and optimal leisure lifestyles is found to be generally untested because it has been developed in relation …
Human rights, leisure and leisure studies
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, endorsed by the United Nations in 1948, includes the right to leisure time, to cultural participation and to travel. While the idea of human rights permeates many aspects of national and international life, it has not permeated the field of leisure studies to any great extent. The purpose of this paper is not to remedy this situation but to argue that this neglect is unjustified and to suggest that leisu…
The leisure society I
Recent discussion in the World Leisure Journal has raised the issue of the place of the “leisure society thesis” in the development of leisure studies. Some have argued that the thesis was a key, but misconceived, “project” of the early phase of leisure studies which has done lasting damage to the leisure studies brand. Others argue that the thesis was a passing preoccupation which has long since been superseded and is no longer of relevance. In …
Leisure, lifestyle and status
In contrast to the Marxist view of society and leisure, with its basis of class division and conflict, analyses of leisure based on the pluralist defence of the liberal democratic market system seem to lack both a satisfactory classificatory system of society and an adequate sociological explanation of the dynamic forces shaping leisure and society. This leads in turn to an inadequate agenda for the study of leisure in its wider social context. T…
Joffre Dumazedier and the definition of leisure
One of the most widely cited definitions of leisure is that presented by Joffre Dumazedier, originally published in 1962 and based on three functions of leisure identified in his empirical research in France. Three issues are addressed in this paper. First, aspects of the English translation of the definition, published in the USA in 1967, are found to be inappropriate and misleading. Second, attention is drawn to the unexplained omission of expe…
Is there enough leisure time? Leisure studies, work-life balance, the realm of necessity and the realm of freedom
In economically advanced countries in recent years, working hours of many full-time employees have been static or increasing and there has been talk of people suffering from a “time squeeze”. Researchers in the field of leisure studies have not featured strongly in debates surrounding this issue, having generally shown little interest in the work-leisure time relationships since the 1970s, being preoccupied instead with leisure activity, meaning …
The leisure society II
The “leisure society thesis” was developed primarily in the 1960s and 1970s and a recent paper in the World Leisure Journal summarised the relevant literature from that period and analysed contemporary recollections of it (Veal, 2011). This paper follows the story of the leisure society thesis since 1980. Set against the background of discussions of work and leisure in periods of high unemployment, the work ethic, working hours, post-work and wor…
International Comparisons of Sports participation in European Countries
This paper looks back to an international comparative study of sports participation in seven European countries that was carried out in the late 1990s, COMPASS 1999. The original COMPASS study used data from the 1995-1997 period. This paper reviews the COMPASS framework and results, considers what new evidence is available to update the original COMPASS results, and considers what changes would be needed to the COMPASS approach if a new comparati…
Sport and human rights
Participation in sport is recognised as a human right under the terms of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), as a component of 'participation in the cultural life of the community'. It has also been declared a human right in the Council of Europe's Sport for All Charter, the UNESCO International Charter of Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport and the Olympic Charter. UN member states which have ratified the…
The Use of Urban Parks
Urban parks are a significant feature of the urban environment and constitute a significant budget commitment on the part of local councils and some state governments, but they are relatively neglected, and often ignored, in mainstream leisure studies. This paper examines two themes in existing urban parks research, namely the 'non-use and decline' theme and the theme of equity. The review concludes that the 'accepted wisdom' on non-use and decli…
Tracking Change
This paper puts forward the proposition that the purpose of official national surveys of leisure participation is: 1. to track changes in overall leisure participation over time in order to evaluate policy aimed at promoting participation; and 2. to monitor variation in participation across social groups in order to evaluate policies directed at achieving equitable access to leisure opportunity. The chequered history of the various national leisu…
The 4-day work-week
Current campaigns for a four-day, 32-hour standard working week to replace the five-day, 40-hour model have attracted the attention of employers, trade unions, political parties, governments and the communications media but, seemingly, not of leisure scholars. This is in contrast to the leisure society concept of the 1960s/1970s, some versions of which anticipated a 30-hour working week. This paper examines the 4-day work-week proposition from a …
A critique of serious leisure as theory
The Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP) divides leisure activity into three forms: serious, casual and project-based, each with a number of distinguishing qualities, rewards, costs and benefits. It is presented by its creator, Robert Stebbins, as both a classification system and a theoretical framework. In its early history, it was seen as a micro-level, or at most meso-level, construct concerned with the behaviour of individuals and small groups. …
Volunteering and Income Inequality
Wilkinson and Pickett, in their 2009 book The Spirit Level , found that, in rich countries, income inequality was negatively associated with a range of indicators of well-being, but they did not consider the relationship with volunteering. This paper seeks to fill that gap. Using existing data sources, it shows that, among European countries, higher levels of volunteering are associated with lower levels of income inequality. The relationship is …
Leisure, income inequality and the Veblen effect
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This paper was prompted by the publication in Britain in 2009 of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, which attracted considerable comment, both positive and negative and both substantive and methodological. The book claimed to show that, on a range of health and social measures of well-being, rich countries with more equal income distributions tended t…
Leisure, Culture and Lifestyle
This paper examines the place of the concept of lifestyle in leisure studies in the light of three recent publications. In Leisure and Contemporary Society Ken Roberts (1999) concludes that lifestyle is not a key concept for leisure studies because it has not replaced factors such as age, gender and social class in providing individuals with a sense of identity. In Leisure and Culture, Chris Rojek (2000) reviews the distinctive features of the do…
Leisure studies, pluralism and social democracy
Beginning with the 1980s debates over neo-Marxist and pluralist approaches to leisure theory, this paper addresses the question of the current direction of leisure studies in the context of the decline of Marxism, the evolution of feminism, the emergence of postmodernism and the development of pluralist thinking in recent years. It is argued that the so-called pluralist position in leisure studies has been developed in only the most sketchy manne…
Leisure in England and Wales
Leisure and human rights
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) declared leisure time and cultural participation to be human rights, but the idea of leisure rights has not featured significantly in the field of leisure studies, including the sociology of leisure. The recent revision of the World Leisure Organisation’s Charter for Leisure provides an opportunity to reconsider this omission. The article comprises five main sections: an introduction to the pl…
Leisure and human rights
This paper introduces the recent revision of the WLO Charter for Leisure. It presents the background and underlying reasons for the revision, positions the Charter in the global human rights system, and examines its potentially significant role in leisure policy, research and practice. References are made to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which includes leisure-related rights, and the International Covenant on Ec…
Intersubjectivity and the transatlantic divide
(1994). Intersubjectivity and the transatlantic divide: a comment on Glancy (and Ragheb and Tate) Leisure Studies: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 211-215
The Doubtful Contribution of Economics to Leisure Management
Economics is widely seen as the senior social science discipline and as a key ingredient in management training. Leisure and tourism have become significant components of developed market economies, accounting for between 20 and 30 per cent of consumer expenditure. Economics should therefore be an important discipline in the study of leisure and tourism. While macro-economic theory has been widely applied in the leisure and tourism field through …
Local authority leisure service—The state of play
1979). Local authority leisure service—The state of play. Local Government Studies: Vol. 5, Leisure Services'79, pp. 5-16
Holding governments to account for leisure rights
Leisure is recognized as a human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the World Leisure Organisation’s recently revised Charter for Leisure. However, it has been neglected in the UN’s mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation nation states’ compliance with human rights obligations under the terms of the relevant international treaties. Until very recently, leisure rights have also been neglected by the leisure research communi…
Cultural participation as a human right
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares participation in the cultural life of the community to be a human right. This is confirmed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which is a treaty under international law. This commits states to reporting regularly to the UN on their record in upholding the covenanted rights. While states are held to account in regard to high profile human rights by non-government…
Local authority leisure service—The state of play
1979). Local authority leisure service—The state of play. Local Government Studies: Vol. 5, Leisure Services'79, pp. 5-16
Leisure services
Leisure services
Leisure services
Leisure in England and Wales
The Doubtful Contribution of Economics to Leisure Management
Economics is widely seen as the senior social science discipline and as a key ingredient in management training. Leisure and tourism have become significant components of developed market economies, accounting for between 20 and 30 per cent of consumer expenditure. Economics should therefore be an important discipline in the study of leisure and tourism. While macro-economic theory has been widely applied in the leisure and tourism field through …
Lifestyle, leisure and pluralism — a response
Leisure and the Future
Leisure, lifestyle and status
In contrast to the Marxist view of society and leisure, with its basis of class division and conflict, analyses of leisure based on the pluralist defence of the liberal democratic market system seem to lack both a satisfactory classificatory system of society and an adequate sociological explanation of the dynamic forces shaping leisure and society. This leads in turn to an inadequate agenda for the study of leisure in its wider social context. T…
The concept of lifestyle
The paper is a review of literature and an analysis of the concept of lifestyle and its relationship to leisure. In the first part of the paper the review is divided into nine sections covering Weberian, sub-cultural, psychological, market research and psychographics, leisure/tourism styles, spatial, socialist lifestyles, consumer culture, gender, and miscellaneous approaches. In the second part of the paper a number of themes are identified and …
The New Generation of Leisure Surveys—Implications for Research on Everyday Life
Intersubjectivity and the transatlantic divide
(1994). Intersubjectivity and the transatlantic divide: a comment on Glancy (and Ragheb and Tate) Leisure Studies: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 211-215
Leisure versus economics in the development of legal gambling in Australia
The paper focuses on gambling as a form of leisure and notes that, despite its prevalence around the world, it has been relatively neglected in the leisure studies literature to date. An historical approach is used to analyse the struggles between competing social and economic forces over the legitimacy of gambling in Australia, and over the development of casinos in particular. A framework for the study of leisure as a marginal, contested activi…
T rends in T ime P ressure
Leisure studies, pluralism and social democracy
Beginning with the 1980s debates over neo-Marxist and pluralist approaches to leisure theory, this paper addresses the question of the current direction of leisure studies in the context of the decline of Marxism, the evolution of feminism, the emergence of postmodernism and the development of pluralist thinking in recent years. It is argued that the so-called pluralist position in leisure studies has been developed in only the most sketchy manne…
Book Notes
Leisure, Culture and Lifestyle
This paper examines the place of the concept of lifestyle in leisure studies in the light of three recent publications. In Leisure and Contemporary Society Ken Roberts (1999) concludes that lifestyle is not a key concept for leisure studies because it has not replaced factors such as age, gender and social class in providing individuals with a sense of identity. In Leisure and Culture, Chris Rojek (2000) reviews the distinctive features of the do…
Leisure and tourism policy and planning
Leisure and travel - needs and rights political ideologies the market versus the state leisure plans and strategic planning planning methods estimating and forecasting demand economic evaluation performance evaluation policy and planning for particular sections and groups
The Olympic Games
Tracking Change
This paper puts forward the proposition that the purpose of official national surveys of leisure participation is: 1. to track changes in overall leisure participation over time in order to evaluate policy aimed at promoting participation; and 2. to monitor variation in participation across social groups in order to evaluate policies directed at achieving equitable access to leisure opportunity. The chequered history of the various national leisu…
Education, Training and Professional Development in Leisure
Work And Leisure
A Handbook of Leisure Studies
A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students an
The Use of Urban Parks
Urban parks are a significant feature of the urban environment and constitute a significant budget commitment on the part of local councils and some state governments, but they are relatively neglected, and often ignored, in mainstream leisure studies. This paper examines two themes in existing urban parks research, namely the 'non-use and decline' theme and the theme of equity. The review concludes that the 'accepted wisdom' on non-use and decli…
Special Issue on Urban Parks
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