1st Edition
Exploring the Natural Underground A New Sociology of Caving
1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark
2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing ‘Tackle’ for the Job
3 The Underside of Modernity
4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things
5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground
6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies
7 An Uncommercial Traveller’s Guide to the Art of Sublimation
8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke
Biography
Kevin Bingham is Higher Education Lecturer in the Department of Service Industries at Barnsley College in the United Kingdom. He has published in the fields of leisure studies, sport and sociology.
'In Exploring the Natural Underground, Bingham examines the transformative power of dreaming, accessing, and exploring the hidden dimensions of our Earth. Deeply contemplative and philosophical, this book is about the power of hidden dimensions which inspire new ways of living, being, and imagining, together. It is an “existential leap” indeed.'
María Alejandra Pérez, West Virginia University, USA
