I have been enjoying the exchanges on the subject of adventure
education enormously in these e-mails. Perhaps some of you out there
can be of assistance on two topics:
Firstly, I am reading, inehorably slowly, for a PhD with the working
title 'the commodification of adventure' - a study begun with the
notion that if something could be packaged up and sold, how then
could it be termed 'adventure'? Modernity and its advances seem to
bring to bear a rationalising process of homogenisation and risk
reduction to all 'product' - therefore what price the true adventure?
Furthermore, what is adventure?
(I am a marketing lecturer, but keen to understand consumption and
the social processes of the demand side primarily.)
Can anyone out there suggest any reading beyond Mortlock, Giddens,
Beck, Rojeck, Elias & Dunning, Cohen & Taylor etc?
Would anyone care to co-write on the subject?
What journals may be interested?
What subjects may be suitable for fieldwork? - initially my intention
was to study rockclimbers (I've already written a bit on their
consumption practices) but I'm drawn more toward outdoor adventure
with a wilderness journey motif increasingly (old age?).This may lead
to exploration of more than risk management, to include insight,
transcendence, learning, even spiritual issues - many of you would,
I'm sure, argue that these are all present amidst rock climing
experiences, but I feel I've lost touch with that 'subculture'. . .
My second (or fourth) question is regarding texts which may have
pointers on facilitational skills for providers of outdoor management
development courses - any suggestions?
I would welcome any response to these enquiries whatsoever.
Cheers,
Pete Varley
(0161 247 3994)
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