Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031488382)

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.

Author: Manolis Tzanakis
ISBN-10: 3031488385
ISBN-13: 9783031488382
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/24/2024
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d