Editors:
Presents new, interdisciplinary insights about rest and its opposites
Offers inspiration for other research projects
Includes accounts of how the contributors and editors have tracked and reflected on their work across disciplinary boundaries to investigate rest as an aesthetic, political, physiological and sociological phenomenon
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Minds
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Front Matter
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Bodies
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Front Matter
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Practices
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Front Matter
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About this book
The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.
Keywords
- busyness
- calm
- wellbeing
- activity
- performance
- sociology
- life sciences
- relaxation
- therapeutic relaxation
- history
- song
- music
- urban space
- bodies
- mind
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Editors and Affiliations
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Durham University , Durham, United Kingdom
Felicity Callard
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Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes
About the editors
Felicity Callard is Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and Professor in Social Science for Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK.
Kimberley Staines is Project Coordinator at Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK and an employee of Durham University, UK, with a background in law and publishing.
James Wilkes is Associate Director of Hubbub, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, UK. He is a poet, writer and Senior Researcher at the Department of Geography, Durham University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Restless Compendium
Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites
Editors: Felicity Callard, Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45263-0Published: 07 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83253-1Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45264-7Published: 27 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 205
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sport Sociology, Medical Sociology, Health Psychology, Sociology of Culture