Hi Laurence
you wrote...
> I find it curious that we never talk about leisure on this list. If anyone
> would like to engage in any discussion I would be happy to hear, either
> personally or through the list.
How right you are. Not just here but also in the literature. Where
leisure is considered it is often in relation to public services,
access to public facilities or the provision of 'special' leisure
activities. Yet, most leisure is in the private domain. There are of
course exceptions (Colin Barnes includes leisure as a prominent theme
in his first two books).
Interesting, but not necessarily surprising, that research funding
shoud be channeled towards concerns about employment, education,
health care, the effectiveness of welfare services. I seem to remember
Paul Abberley writing something about definitions of disability and
'the concerns of the state'? Plus ca change?
In our current work with disabled teenagers, leisure and social lives
are an important concern and I hope that we may be able to say
something about this as we ge tfurther with the analysis.
Best Wishes
Mark Priestley
Disability Research Unit
University of Leeds
LEEDS
LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 113 2334417/2334418
Fax: +44 113 2334415
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/dru/dru.htm
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