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An Ethnography of Urban Exploration
Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space

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This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human-made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, Bingham provides a detailed and critical investigation of urban exploration as a form of leisure that is about the coming together of drifting performers who, in their celebration of 'rebellion' and 'deviance', are determined to find a sense of meaning and belonging.
The research considers the influence of consumer capitalism on urban explorers, and the wider social, economic and political context that shapes ideas of belonging and identity in the twenty-first century. By doing this, the book analyses urban exploration as an activity that has emerged in a time when human ideas about culture, individuality and community have transformed, and 'solid' modernity is gradually disintegrating around us.
This multi and interdisciplinary work will appeal to people with an interest in 'abnormal' or 'deviant' leisure, as well as academics from sociology, anthropology, social geography, leisure studies, cultural studies, sport and recreation and tourism.

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Kevin P. Bingham is Associate Lecturer and Research Associate at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.


Product details

Authors Kevin P Bingham, Kevin P. Bingham
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 16.10.2021
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
 
EAN 9783030562533
ISBN 978-3-0-3056253-3
Pages 280
Illustrations XIII, 280 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Dimensions (packing) 14.8 x 1.6 x 21 cm
 
Series Leisure Studies in a Global Era
Subjects Sozialtheorie, Weber, Beck, Soziologie: Sport und Freizeit, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Consumption, auseinandersetzen, Giddens, Heller, Bauman, abandonedenvironment, aestheticsofdecay, urbanExploration
 

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