Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure (Ethics and Sport)

Synopsis

The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insights into how the body engages with its surrounding environment through consciousness, perception, knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection, leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw on research on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving, slacklining, parkour, bodybuilding, dance and circus arts to flesh out the concept of body ecology and its potential for helping us understand our connection with the world around us. Touching on theories of subjectivity, embodiment, pleasure and play, this book explores different approaches to studying body ecology as a way of conceptualising the experience of being immersed in nature, in the elements and in one’s own body through the power of awareness. An experience becomes emersive when it involves the production of new emotions in the body: emersion is the activation of what is living within the body itself. Shedding new light on the possibilities of physical cultural studies, Body Ecology and Emersive Leisure is fascinating reading for all students and scholars with an interest in sport, leisure, philosophy and the body.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

250 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781351337052

Related ISBNs:

9781138569836, 9780203704059, 9780367894153

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

11/09/21

Copyrighted By:

Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, Alessandro Porrovecchio, Olivier Sirost

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sports, Health, Mind and Body, Philosophy, Sociology

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Bernard Andrieu

Edited by:

Jim Parry

Edited by:

Alessandro Porrovecchio

Edited by:

Olivier Sirost