Exploring the Natural Underground

Auteur

Kevin Bingham is Higher Education Lecturer in the Department of Service Industries at Barnsley College in the United Kingdom. He has published in the fields of leisure studies, sport and sociology.

Texte du rabat

This book explores the enigmatic world of the natural underground, viewing it as a site of leisure and a primary sphere of anthropotechnics. It reshapes the old language of caving into new ideas that broaden the possibilities of the sociology of caving.

Contenu

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