Doing the plastic fantastic: ‘artificial’ adventure and older adult climbers

Hickman, Mark; Stokes, Peter; Beard, Colin; Inkster, Allison

doi:10.1080/14729679.2017.1308874

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“…Studies of leisure by information researchers, as in a range of other fields (for example, Heley & Jones, ; Hickman, Stokes, Beard, & Inkster, ), largely rely on sociologist Robert Stebbins' work on serious leisure when seeking to define the nature of leisure. Stebbins work has become familiar to many in Library of Information Science (LIS) through its use by Hartel () in her study of gourmet cooking.…”

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Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Lloyd

Olsson

2019

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A study of enthusiast car restorers is used to illustrate how an information practice approach can provide information science researchers with a richer, more nuanced understanding of the complex interrelationship between people, technology, and information. An ethnographic approach incorporating both semistructured interviews and in the garage ethnographic observation was employed. Analysis was undertaken using an inductive, thematic approach. The findings demonstrate that participants' information environments are rich and complex. Participants' accounts emphasized the corporeal and embodied nature of the restoration process, and this may account for why they privileged the social networks they had developed, often over many decades, over online resources and communities. The findings indicate that participants are engaged in much more than applied problem solving. What is also evident is that engagement in the social world of car restoration, and the networks of social knowledge sharing it affords, is significant for the emotional support it provides for older men who often lose these networks later in life. In a sense, the participants are not only rebuilding their cars but also their own sense of self.

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Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers

Lloyd

Olsson

2019

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“…In addition, much of the specific research cited here deserves duplication, for other adventure activities and participants. Boyes (2013) , Hickman et al (2016 , 2017 ), and Wheaton (2017) interviewed hikers, climbers, sea-kayakers and surfers aged in their sixties and older. We need more such studies.…”

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“…For many expert practitioners, self-esteem and self-identity are strongly bound to skill, as assessed by self and peers. This applies both to paid professions ( Little et al, 2015 ; Yu et al, 2015 ), and to voluntary leisure activities ( Boyes, 2013 ; Hickman et al, 2016 , 2017 ; Wheaton, 2017 ). Self-esteem can reflect current skills, past achievements (mastery), and future potential (talent).…”

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“…There are few recent qualitative studies, however, that examine individual adventure athletes’ perceptions of aging. There are interview-based studies of: 7 New Zealand hikers and bikers aged 63–80 ( Boyes, 2013 ); 8 Scottish rock-climbers and 7 sea-kayakers aged 65+ ( Hickman et al, 2016 ); 10 climbers aged 65–75 ( Hickman et al, 2017 ); and 11 British surfers aged 45–70 ( Wheaton, 2017 ).…”

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Aging Adventure Athletes Assess Achievements and Alter Aspirations to Maintain Self-Esteem

Buckley

2018

Front. Psychol.

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Achievements and capabilities influence the self-esteem of skilled adventure athletes. Self-esteem affects individual mental health. Aging commonly reduces adventure capabilities. To avoid loss in self-esteem, aging adventure athletes are forced to adjust their aspirations. Here, I examine this process using participant observation, ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches. The qualitative data for this analysis are derived from 60 years’ experience in outdoor adventure activities, and ∼30,000 person-hours of participant observation. I argue that individuals assess their own capabilities against a set of specific feats. For some activities, successful completion of a specific feat is known as nailing it. The selection of these feats depends on factors such as activity and geographic location, as well as individual experience and peer comparisons. I examine the detailed process using a single feat repeated over a period of decades, the bubble-line kayak run through Lava Falls on the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River. I compare other examples of nail or fail to construct a general framework for self-esteem in aging adventure athletes, with both physical and psychological feedback loops. I also identify two key thresholds, as aging adventure athletes recognize their declining skills. These may apply to aging more broadly, beyond outdoor adventure.

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“…The concept of adventure is contested and difficult to define (Hickman, Stokes, Beard, & Inkster, 2017;Pike & Beames, 2013;Swarbrooke, Beard, Leckie, & Pomfret, 2012). Core characteristics of adventure expand from novelty, excitement, daring and risk to include the interdependent and overlapping aspects of uncertainty of outcome, danger, challenge, anticipated rewards, stimulation, escapism and separation, exploration and discovery, absorption and focus and contrasting emotions (Swarbrooke et al, 2012, p. 9).…”

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