Tzanakis, Manolis. <br/><br/>
Scuba Diving Practices in Greece  A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature /  [electronic resource] : 
by Manolis Tzanakis. 
 - 1st ed. 2023. 
 - Cham :  Springer International Publishing :  Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,  2023. 
 - XXI, 304 p.  online resource. 
 - Leisure Studies in a Global Era,  2946-3181 .
<br/><br/>1. Introduction: Scuba Diving as a Leisure Activity -- 2. The Global in the Local: Scuba Diving in Greece -- 3. Technology and Underwater Worlds -- 4. Diving technology at the Recreational World -- 5. From the Navy to the Sport's World -- 6. Underwater Phantasmagoria: The touristization of Scuba Diving -- 7. Breathing Under Water: Scuba Diving as Multisensory Experience -- 8. Pleasure and Aquastalgia -- 9. Conclusion: Diving as Travel on the Boundaries. 
<br/><br/> 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. Manolis Tzanakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete, Greece. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783031488399 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sociology.<br/>Leisure.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Sports sciences.<br/>Recreation--Equipment and supplies.<br/>Sports--History.<br/>Leisure Studies.<br/>Ethnography.<br/>Sport Technology.<br/>Sport History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.4812