Part I
Theoretical Perspectives
1
The Deviant Leisure Perspective: A Theoretical Introduction
Thomas Raymen and Oliver Smith
2
What lies beneath? Some notes on ultra-realism, and the intellectual foundations of the 'deviant leisure' perspective
Simon Winlow
3
Consumptive and non-consumptive leisure and its fit with deviance
Robert A. Stebbins
4
Real Ultras and Ultra Realism: Deviant Leisure Cultures, High Theory and Raw Realism
Steve Redhead
Part II
Consuming Harm
5 'Be more VIP': Deviant Leisure and hedonistic excess in Ibiza's 'Disneyized' party spaces
Keith Hayward and Tim Turner
6
Substance Use in the Night-Time Economy: Deviant Leisure?
Tammy Ayres
7
Lifestyle Drugs and Late-Capitalism: A Topography of Harm
Alexandra Hall
8
'The fittest on Earth': Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs within UK CrossFit Communities
Katinka Van de Ven and Kyle J.D. Mulrooney
Part III
Digital Harms
9
From edgework to death drive: The pursuit of pleasure and denial of harm in a leisure society
Rowland Atkinson
10
The Business of Resistance: Feminist pornography and the limits of leisure industries as sites of political resistance
Corina Medley
11
Lifestyle Gambling in Accelerated Culture
Thomas Raymen
Part IV
Environmental Harms
12
Loving the Planet to Death: Tourism and Ecocide
Rob White
13
Luxury, Tourism and Harm: A Deviant Leisure Perspective
Oliver Smith
14
Conspicuously Doing Charity: Exploring the relationship between 'doing good' and doing harm in tourism Jo Large
Part V
Harmful Spaces, Harmful Places
15
The Paradox of Parkour: Conformity, Resistance and Spatial Exclusion
Thomas Raymen
16
Urban Exploration as Deviant Leisure
Theo Kindynis
17
Holiday camps, prison time and confined escapism: Understanding leisure, pleasure and harm in prisons
Kate Gooch and David Sheldon
About the Author: Oliver Smith is a reader in Criminology at The University of Plymouth, UK. He has published widely in the field of deviant leisure, and is author of Contemporary Adulthood and the Night Time Economy (Palgrave, 2014). His current research examines the capacity for environmental harm in the context of commodified leisure markets.
Thomas Raymen is Senior Lecturer in criminology at Northumbria University, UK. His interests span the fields of criminology, moral philosophy, leisure studies, cultural geography and urban studies. Thomas is the author of Parkour, Deviance and Leisure in the Late Capitalist City (Emerald, 2018), and his research has focused upon a criminological exploration of the concept of 'deviant leisure'. He is currently focused on developing a theory of social harm rooted in a post-liberal ethics.
