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Robert A. Stebbins
Robert A. Stebbins, FRSC, is Faculty Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. He has penned over 230 articles and chapters and written or edited 43 books. The latter include The Idea of Leisure: First Principles (2012), Work and Leisure in the Middle East: The Common Ground of Two Separate Worlds (2012) and The Committed Reader: Reading for Utility, Pleasure and Fulfillment in the Twenty-First Century (2013). He also wrote in 2009 Personal Decisions in the Public Square: Beyond Problem Solving into a Positive Sociology and Leisure and Consumption: Common Ground/Separate Worlds. In 2011 he and Lee Davidson examined the nature challenge activities in Serious Leisure and Nature: Sustainable in the Outdoors. Stebbins’ research and writing interests centre on leisure in retirement, leisure education and leisure as the basis for personal distinctiveness. He is elected Fellow of the Academy of Leisure Sciences (1996), the Royal Society of Canada (1999) and the World Leisure Academy (2010).