Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving

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    • Bingham, Kevin

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Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving

Kevin Bingham

(Routledge critical leisure studies)

Routledge, 2023

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Focuses on the natural underground as a synchronic environment, an environment that can be entered at any time for an existential experience that is sometimes social but always deeply personal.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark 2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing 'Tackle' for the Job 3 The Underside of Modernity 4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things 5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground 6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies 7 An Uncommercial Traveller's Guide to the Art of Sublimation 8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke

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