Book chapter
Who Should Inhabit Leisure? Disability, Embodiment, and Access to Leisure
The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory, pp.743-764
Palgrave Macmillan UK
04/19/2017
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5_42
Abstract
This chapter explores who should inhabit or have access to leisure? The purpose of the chapter is to expose the discourses surrounding access of people with disabilities to leisure experiences. From this frame, we discuss ways in which access to leisure is shaped around discourses of the body, how discourses of the body are a response (e.g., political, cultural, historical, and theoretical) to difference, and ways in which leisure can be understood based on the various discourses surrounding embodiment of people with disabilities. One point of discussion is the social context of embodiment and disability. Specifically, we discuss how context shapes discourses around embodiment and disability. Lastly, the chapter considers the ways the discourses around disability shape the leisure discussion with a focus on how some differences are valued and others are not.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Who Should Inhabit Leisure? Disability, Embodiment, and Access to Leisure
- Creators
- Mary Ann Devine - Kent State University, Kent, USAKen Mobily - University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory, pp.743-764
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5_42
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK; London
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/19/2017
- Academic Unit
- Health, Sport, and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984002420502771
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