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Decentring Leisure Daniel J. O'Keefe Teaching Advanced Language Skills throughThis book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of the key social formations of our time: capitalism, modernity and postmodernity. Rojek brings together the insights of Marxism, feminism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and Baudrillard to produce a comprehensive survey and rethinking of leisure theory. At the same time he presents a radical critique of the traditional 'centring' of the concept of leisure on 'escape', 'freedom', 'choice'. In