Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature
Year: 2024 Language: English Author: Manolis Tzanakis Genre: Research papers Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Edition: 1st (January, 2024) ISBN: 9783031488399 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 320 Description: 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.
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Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature
Language: English
Author: Manolis Tzanakis
Genre: Research papers
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Edition: 1st (January, 2024)
ISBN: 9783031488399
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 320
Description: 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.
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