PETER BRAMHAM is Visiting Research Fellow in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. His publications include Understanding Leisure (co-authored), A Sociology of Leisure: A Reader (co-edited), Leisure and the Urban Process (co-edited) and Leisure Policies in Europe (co-edited). His most recent book is Sport, Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City, edited with Stephen Wagg.
STEPHEN WAGG is Professor in the Carnegie Faculty of Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He has written widely on the politics of comedy, as well the politics of sport and of childhood. His publications include Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference (edited).
