Anyone interested in presenting a paper in the following session, please
contact me in the first instance (details below). Abstracts will be due
January 19th.
Call for Papers: Glasgow RGS-IGU August 2004
Historical geographies of morality and leisure
Elizabeth Gagen (University of Manchester) and Fiona Smyth (University of
Manchester)
That recreation and leisure practices are shot through with a normative
moralism has been acknowledged by geographers for some time. More recently,
however, geographers have followed Matless' (1994) lead to focus less on the
moral discourses that guide 'proper' recreational practice, and more on the
nature of practice itself. The aim of this session is to pursue this
interest at the interface of health and recreation, and, in particular, to
problematise the study of embodied practice in historical research.
Papers might cover the following topics:
Leisure as embodied practice
Searching for embodied experience in written archives
Moralism and state sponsored recreation
Transgressive leisures
Leisure and the search for self
Dr Elizabeth Gagen
School of Geography
Mansfield Cooper Building
University of Manchester
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Manchester M13 9PL
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