'The Tug of Danger with the Magnetism of Mystery' Descents into 'the Comprehensive, Poetic-sensuous Appeal of Caves'  

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Cant, Sarah G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Tourist Studies vol. 3 no. 1 (Apr. 2005), page 67–81.
Topik: adventure caving embodied-sensuous experiences intimacy leisure outdoors physical sculpture subjectivities
Fulltext: 67TS31.pdf (236.24KB)

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This article focuses on the leisure pursuit of caving and those who participate in caving (cavers), to explore how some cavers have constructed caving as a pursuit that is highly sensuous, disrupting conventional constructions of the 'heroic' figure of caver. The article locates the practice of caving within a broader context of outdoor recreation, identifying how caving has been constructed culturally, highlighting dominant ideas about heroic physical pursuit and underground adventure. However, the physical geography of rock and spaces affects how a human body may encounter and experience caves, shaping sensuous and intimate underground knowledges, and caver subjectivities; sometimes revealed in creative and highly evocative ways. The article examines work by David Heap and Ian Chandler that demonstrates 'a love of caving'; they articulate ideas of intimacy and relations between humans and environments through literature and sculpture, challenging dominant stereotypes, suggesting very particular physical, embodied, emotional and thoughtful geographies.

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