Hello Pete - With regards to your question concerning risk.
How did you find the works that deal with the "aesthetics of risk" ? I
wonder if this is one area that you work with. If so a great debate might
be attached to the already mentioned Modernity theorists like Beck, for
example and that of Scott Lash. From there we are open to a huge field of
risk appreciation that could have fun with Nietzsche, for example. But is
this the kind of thing you seek out more.? Am I on your right track here?
best wishes
steve bowles
VARLEY P MR wrote:
> 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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