Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature Hardcover - 2024
by Manolis Tzanakis
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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.
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- Title Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature
- Author Manolis Tzanakis
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
- Date 2024-01-24
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- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9783031488382 / 3031488385
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.75 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.91 cm)
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