Scuba Diving Practices in Greece Manolis Tzanakis
Manolis Tzanakis
ISBN 10: 3031488385 ISBN 13: 9783031488382
Published by Springer, 2024
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Scuba Diving Practices in Greece In deutscher Sprache. pages. Seller Inventory # BN171300
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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.
About the Author: 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 Manolis ...
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: gut
Edition: 2024.