TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tzanakis,Manolis
TI  - Scuba Diving Practices in Greece: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature 
T2  - Leisure Studies in a Global Era,
SN  - 9783031488399
U1  - 306.4812 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Leisure
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Sports sciences
KW  - Recreation
KW  - Equipment and supplies
KW  - Sports
KW  - History
KW  - Leisure Studies
KW  - Ethnography
KW  - Sport Technology
KW  - Sport History
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48839-9
ER  -