Special Issue: Leisure between Vision and Reality
Guest Editor: Dr Elie Cohen-Gewerc (Beit Berl College, Israel) and Prof. Robert Stebbins (University of Calgary, Canada)
Article Due Date: 1 April 2017*
Publication Date (Approximate): Volume 59, Issue 3, 2017
Leisure is very present in our life. Leisure industries provide a growing spectrum of activities such that everyone can find something fitting his/her interest. In the Western world, leisure is now a reality, having found a legitimate place in our existence. Graham T.T. (2008) announces the “oncoming ‘Leisure Era’”. How this kind of statement inspire us in our research?
In this special issue, our aim is to motivate thought and discussion around the leisure issue, as practice and theory. What can leisure offer to individuals, communities, to society as a whole? How does the relatively recent concept of Leisure fit with the basic ideas of democracy and equality? What is and what could be the significance of leisure in our conception of existence?
In other words, can we discern conceptions of leisure, world-views in which leisure has a decent role? Bertrand Russel wrote (1930): “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level”. What are the perspectives nowadays?
Examples of topics for this special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
Social and economic interests, benefits and risks in the field of leisure.
Leisure: between individuality and individualism.
Leisure and social change: risk and opportunity.
Leisure and persons physically and mentally challenged
The relationship between leisure and social duties.
Leisure, freedom and personal commitment.
The concept of “Sabbath” (the “Lord’s Day”), promoted by traditions as an alternative to leisure consumerism.
Leisure trends as particular phenomena of classical conformism (to follow habits, rituals, etc. of some established conception of life) or a modular one (tending to follow any new trend regardless of its contents, a kind of “identity-driven”)?
Leisure as empowerment.
*Potential authors are strongly encouraged to contact the guest editors Elie Cohen-Gewerc ([email protected]) and Robert Stebbins ([email protected]) to discuss potential submissions to assure topics fit the special issue.
Manuscript Submission Procedure
Submit to: Guest Editor Dr Elie Cohen-Gewerc [[email protected]]
The complete style and reference guide can be found at: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rwle20&page=instructions#.VviSb-J97X4 or in the back cover of recent issues of the Journal.
In brief:
All manuscripts must be in English and must not exceed 5000 words all inclusive. Manuscripts that exceed this limit will not be reviewed until they conform.
Manuscripts must be double spaced in 12 pt New Times Roman.
Manuscripts must adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA, 6th edition).
Manuscripts should be sent as e-mail attachments in doc or rtf formats.