{"product_id":"scuba-diving-practices-in-greece-manolis-tzanakis-9783031488382","title":"Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature","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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Manolis Tzanakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3031488385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783031488382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d","brand":"Manolis Tzanakis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424531497215,"sku":"9783031488382","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9542ecdf-4ca0-4b66-9a51-68d5721e7fe8.jpg?v=1761530848","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/scuba-diving-practices-in-greece-manolis-tzanakis-9783031488382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}