Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving

Author(s)

• Bingham, Kevin

Bibliographic Information

Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving

Kevin Bingham

（Routledge critical leisure studies）

Routledge, 2023

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BD03665377
• ISBN:
  • 9781032294766
• LCCN: 2022060319
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 159 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GV200.62
  • DC23 : 796.52/5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Caving -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Escape (Psychology)
  • LCSH : Senses and sensation
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB22187482