Deviant Leisure and Events of Deviance A Transgressive Compendium

This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event studies within diverse explorations of deviance. It includes chapters on games and gaming; performing queerness; events around being kinkster; drugs and sex, LGBTQ+ events and activism, and goth subculture. These are combined with poetry, personal reflection and artwork, much of which has been created by contributors. The compendium draws on inquiry undertaken by contributors from a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, as well as deviant leisure practitioners/event organisers. It seeks to expand the cultural and academic articulation of deviance into other disciplines and to develop new perspectives on deviant leisure and deviant leisure practice. It speaks to students, researchers, and practitioners working or interested in critical leisure and event studies, queer theory, cultural theory, burlesque/circus studies, media studies, and discourse studies.

1. Craftivism: Using craft as a tool for influencing social change;  Danielle Lowy.- 2. Deviant Leisure as a weapon for liberation; Angel L. Martinez.- 3. Image/Photomontage; Ian R Lamond .- 4. Playing with roles: how roleplaying games can be used in exploring gender and sexuality; Peter Ray Allison.- 5. Playing it our own way: Trans deviations of videogame design; Josephine Baird.- 6. Easter with the family; Jet Moon.- 7. Two poems; Vixen Noir.- 8. An investigation of the political power of the Sao Paulo LGBTQ+ pop scene; Diego Almeida.- 9. ‘Dread in monochrome’: the rhetoric of whiteness in UK goth; Claire Nally and Tim Sinister.- 10. Train Journeys and other delirium; Rachel Saunders.- 11. Rock Art; John Hyatt.- 12. An autoethnography of matched betting at events; Sarah Kelsey.- 13. Card Confessions: Digital Forms of Deviance in the Mind-Sport Bridge; Jordan Maclean, Samantha Punch, Michael Xu.- 14. The misbehaviour of persistent standing in all-seated stadia in English Football; Mark Turner.- 15. Poems; Rosie Garland.- 16. The Deviant Leisure of Gym Bodies, Militarised Branding and Fascistic Creep; Dawn Woolley and Jason Luger.- 17. Koinonia: Creating safe(r) spaces for Queer(ing) Deviance; Rowan Bombadil.- 18. Chemsex events as deviant congregation & ketamine explorations as psychosexual geography; Sebastian Baxter and Patrick Baxter.