Research Committees

RC13 Sociology of Leisure

Objectives

To promote international cooperation in the field of the activities of sociology of leisure; to exchange theoretical and practical information among all countries and experts concerning the results of investigations on leisure; to convene international seminars, symposia, meetings on leisure; to prepare and circulate reports about the development and problems of leisure in different countries and regions; to promote organiseddocumentation on leisure in cooperation with other documentation centers; to identify sociological problems in leisure and organize international research projects.

To know more about the history of RC13, go to Bulletin 32 (1983), pp. 11-15.

Board 2018 - 2022. Extended 2023

President	Sukant K. CHAUDHURY, University of Lucknow, India, sukantkchaudhury@gmail.com
Vice-Presidents	Shintaro KONO, University of Alberta, Canada Maliga Subaluxmi NAIDOO, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
Executive Secretary/Treasurer	Karl SPRACKLEN, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom, k.spracklen@leedsbeckett.ac.uk
Board Members	Anju BENIWAL, Government Meera Girls College, India Cesar TEIXEIRA CASTILHO, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Ana Claudia PORFIRIO COUTO, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Christianne GOMES, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Dilip Ramdas KHAIRNAR, Deogiri College, India Huimei LIU, Zhejiang University, China Fabio Massimo LO VERDE, University of Palermo, Italy Richard MCGRATH, University of South Australia, Australia Rasul A. MOWATT, Indiana University, USA Madhu NAGLA, Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), India Pratap PINJANI, Government College, Ajmer, India Kenneth ROBERTS, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Pranjal SARMA, Dibrugarh University, India Klara TARKO, University of Szeged, Hungary Misri Lal VERMA, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, India

Program Coordinator for IV ISA Forum 2020 is:
Sukant K. CHAUDHURY, sukantkchaudhury@gmail.com

Cross Interest

RC50 International Tourism

RC06 Family Research

Publications

The International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure is the official journal of the RC13. It has been launched in 2018 and is also on Twitter.

	Summer	Winter
2015	PDF
2014	PDF
2013		PDF
2012	PDF	PDF

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