‘The Tug of Danger with the Magnetism of Mystery’
| Autor: | Sarah G. Cant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
geography
Sculpture geography.geographical_feature_category Poetry 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Appeal 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Adventure Leisure pursuit Visual arts Cave Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Sociology 050703 geography Recreation |
| Zdroj: | Tourist Studies. 3:67-81 |
| ISSN: | 1741-3206 1468-7976 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1468797603040531 |
| Popis: | This article focuses on the leisure pursuit of caving and those whoparticipate in caving (cavers), to explore how some cavers have constructed cavingas a pursuit that is highly sensuous, disrupting conventional constructions of the‘heroic’ figure of caver. The article locates the practice of caving within a broadercontext of outdoor recreation, identifying how caving has been constructed culturally,highlighting dominant ideas about heroic physical pursuit and under ground adventure. However, the physical geography of rock and spaces affects how a humanbody may encounter and experience caves, shaping sensuous and intimateunderground knowledges, and caver subjectivities; sometimes revealed in creativeand highly evocative ways. The article examines work by David Heap and Ian Chandler that demonstrates ‘a love of caving’; they articulate ideas of intimacy andrelations between humans and environments through literature and sculpture,challenging dominant stereotypes, suggesting very particular physical, embodied,emotional and thoughtful geographies. |
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