This volume contains a large selection of the invited papers given at the Twelfth Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International held in Rotterdam in 2002. Two sessions were devoted to what came to be called the cultural industries (movies, television, media, etc.). Two dealt...

Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, den Stellenwert des Konsums in der Geschichte der Moderne, d.h. in der "großen Transformation" der westlichen Gesellschaft herauszuarbeiten, die industrielle Revolution mit der zeitgleich stattfindenden Konsumrevolution in einen engen Zusammenhang zu bringen und...

This text critically examines all current, prevalent methods that have been developed in cross-cultural analysis, offering students and researchers the theoretical and practical advantages and potential pitfalls of each approach

A critical evaluation of the central debates within leisure studies, this text looks at both management theories and leisure management, as well as historical debates on key issues such as rational recreation, public service broadcasting and tourism

This book fosters a wide-ranging and nuanced discussion of the concept of ‘enough’. Acknowledging the prominence of notions of sufficiency in debates about sustainability, it argues for a more complex, culturally and historically informed understanding of how these might be manifested across...

The book offers a detailed introduction to contemporary Chinese culture industry development. It starts with an analysis of the historical aspects and the contextual background rooted in the Reform & Opening-up policy. The second part discusses the development from the perspective of reality and...