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Scuba Diving Practices in Greece

A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature

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Authors:
  1. Manolis Tzanakis

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece

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  • Provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices, using Greece as a case study
  • Examines the stages of institutionalization of scuba diving as a leisure practice on a global scale, from 1945
  • Combines the phenomenological approach of underwater multisensory embodied experience and tourism studies

Part of the book series: Leisure Studies in a Global Era (LSGE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: Scuba Diving as a Global Leisure Activity

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Global in the Local: Scuba Diving in Greece

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 27-54

  4. Technology and Underwater Worlds

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 55-78

  5. Diving Technology at the Recreational World

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 79-106

  6. From the Navy to the Sport’s World

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 107-137

  7. Underwater Phantasmagoria: The Touristization of Scuba Diving

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 139-176

  8. Breathing Under Water: Scuba Diving as Multisensory Experience

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 177-213

  9. Pleasure and Aquastalgia

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 215-250

  10. Conclusion: Diving as Travel on the Boundaries

    • Manolis Tzanakis
    Pages 251-262

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 263-304
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Crete, Rethymno, Greece

    Manolis Tzanakis

About the author

Manolis Tzanakis is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete, Greece.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scuba Diving Practices in Greece

  • Book Subtitle: A Historical Ethnography of Technology, Self, Body, and Nature

  • Authors: Manolis Tzanakis

  • Series Title: Leisure Studies in a Global Era

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48839-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48838-2Published: 24 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-48841-2Due: 07 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-48839-9Published: 23 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2946-3173

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-3181

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 304

  • Topics: Sociology, general, Ethnography, Sport Science , Sport Science

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