World Leisure Organization Series

This interdisciplinary Routledge book series aims to publish the most up-to-date and innovative critical perspectives on the leisure field.

The approach of the series corresponds to World Leisure Organisation’s notion of leisure, viewing it as a multi-dimensional reality which includes tourism, sports, culture and recreation. The series also studies cross-discipline and cross-sectoral connections – within and beyond leisure studies and the leisure sector, as well as the development of useful educational tools for the leisure academic and professional communities.

In this series, leisure is acknowledged in its capability of generating alliances and a resilient ecosystem, which needs greater articulation and development of proactive actions, such as those discussed in this series. The series is thus deeply rooted in the theory-practice-policy connection and builds on previous works in the leisure field, as well as from the leisure sector, to further explore leisure’s untapped potential for individual and societal well-being.

The series aims to publish books discussing the following key themes, constituting the focus of the World Leisure Special Interest Groups (SIGs), which work towards the future challenges in the field:

• Leisure Management
• Leisure and Human Rights
• Leisure and Gender
• Leisure and Ageing
• Leisure and for Children and Youth
• Leisure and Tourism
• Leisure Diversity, Access and Inclusionv
• Leisure and Innovation
• Leisure, Community and Economic Development
• Leisure Education
• Leisure and Well-being

Additional emerging topics of interest currently being explored in the wider framework of action of the WLO include: leisure and sustainable development, green leisure, crisis preparedness, resilience and recovery, leisure and digitisation and critical leisure events studies.

The intended audience of this series includes researchers, educators, trainers and students; industry actors and professionals; policy makers at all levels; leisure observatories, etc.

The Series Editors invite those interested in submitting a book proposal for this series to complete this form as a preliminary step.