Scuba Diving Practices in Greece (eBook)

A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature

Manolis Tzanakis (Autor)

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2024 | 1st ed. 2023
XXI, 304 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-48839-9 (ISBN)

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This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices. Starting from a national case study, Greece, the book analyzes the gradually evolving global institutional arrangements of this version of underwater recreational activities. Based on the author's experience as a former diving instructor and on an historical and sociological research of scuba diving in Greece, the book examines the stages of institutionalization of scuba diving as a leisure practice on a global scale, from 1945 to the present day. It combines two traditions: the phenomenological approach of underwater multisensory embodied experience and tourism studies. The two main research questions that the project answers are (a) how scuba diving has historically been shaped as a leisure activity, (b) how has underwater experience been conceptually shaped as a leisure activity. This case is an excellent example for exploring the relationship between society, technology, body and modern practices of self in the late modernity world, under a phenomenological and historical perspective.

Manolis Tzanakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete, Greece.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Reihe/Serie: Leisure Studies in a Global Era
• Zusatzinfo: XXI, 304 p.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: History of Scuba • Leisure Studies • Reflective Methodology • Scuba • Sociology of body-sensory experience • Sociology of Leisure • Technology studies • tourism studies
• ISBN-10: 3-031-48839-3 / 3031488393
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-48839-9 / 9783031488399