An Ethnography of Urban Exploration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Ethnography of Urban Exploration write by Kevin P. Bingham. This book was released on 2020-10-01. An Ethnography of Urban Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space
Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space write by Kevin Peter Bingham. This book was released on 2017. Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban exploration has emerged as the popular term used to describe the physical exploration of human-made structures and objects, particularly those that are abandoned or hidden from the public eye. In recent years it has received growing academic attention and has been examined in the current literature as a leisure form which produces a posture of authenticity that rejects commoditisation in its celebration of rebellion. While this work is certainly a useful and valuable start, it is evident that there is a distinct lack of critical research and many fundamental oversights as urban exploration is removed from its real contexts. This thesis takes the study of this phenomenon in a different direction by focusing its attention straight at the living and breathing individuals who call themselves urban explorers to lay bare a unique leisure world. Using as its starting point Foucault's (1984) concept of heterotopia which is said to operate somewhere between the everyday world and the imaginary, this thesis unpacks the heterotopic social space of a group of urban explorers known as WildBoyz. At the same time, it takes into account the inescapable period of interregnum we currently find ourselves in. This is to move beyond the limits of extant studies by considering the shift into a world dominated by consumer capitalism, and the present social, cultural and political context in which urban exploration takes place. With this in mind, the thesis is an ethnographic investigation that combines the methods of hermeneutic sociology and sociological hermeneutics to enter a heterotopic social space which, including the researcher, comprised nine key individuals from North East England. By doing this, the thesis effectively delves into this heterotopia, and all of its quixotic qualities, of a group of urban explorers by unpacking how they control cognitive, aesthetic and moral social space, the life strategies they individually adopt and the significance of the 'virtual' as a further extension of their heterotopic world. In the end, what this nuanced perspective tells the reader is that a new way of understanding urban exploration has been developed, and this is one that views a particular kind of heterotopic reality as being a form of 'devotional leisure' (Blackshaw, 2017). In other words, this thesis offers instructive and comprehensive insights into the possibilities of freedom, the significance of performativity and the machinations of very particular type of 'home' that cannot help but always be temporary and on the move.
Urban Exploration
Urban Exploration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Exploration write by Yvonne King. This book was released on 2012. Urban Exploration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Explore Everything
Explore Everything - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Explore Everything write by Bradley Garrett. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Explore Everything available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is assumed that every inch of the world has been explored and charted; that there is nowhere new to go. But perhaps it is the everyday places around us—the cities we live in—that need to be rediscovered. What does it feel like to find the city’s edge, to explore its forgotten tunnels and scale unfinished skyscrapers high above the metropolis? Explore Everything reclaims the city, recasting it as a place for endless adventure. Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity. Explore Everything is an account of the author’s escapades with the London Consolidation Crew, an urban exploration collective. The book is also a manifesto, combining philosophy, politics and adventure, on our rights to the city and how to understand the twenty-first century metropolis.
Place Hacking
Place Hacking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Place Hacking write by Bradley Lannes Garrett. This book was released on 2012. Place Hacking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban exploration is a practice of researching, discovering and physically exploring temporary, obsolete, abandoned, derelict and infrastructural areas within built environments. Through charting the rise to prominence of a London urban exploration crew between 2008 and 2011, of which I became an active member, I posit that urban explorers are one of many groups reacting to increased surveillance and control over urban space by undertaking embodied urban interventions in the city that undermine clean spatio/ternporal narratives. The primary research questions stem from my attempts to interrogate the practice from the inside out: Who are urban explorers? What does it involve? Why do they do it? What do they think it will accomplish? While the thesis focuses primarily on 220 explorations undertaken with my primary ethnographic group in London between 2008 and 2011, it also speaks to the urban exploration "scene" that has developed over the past twenty years in cities all over the world. The results that emerge from the research both compliment and complicate recent work within geography around issues of surveillance, resistance, hacking and urban community building and lays out a new account, never before outlined in such detail, of the tales of urban exploration taking place in contemporary cities ." across the globe. This visual ethnography is comprised of text (75,000 words), photographs (200) and video (10 shorts). The ethnographic video components can be found on the Place Hacking video channel located at http://vimeo.com/channels/placehacking or on the DVD in the back of this document. I suggest watching all 10 short videos before reading the thesis.
