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The Mindful Body on the Edge: Forming the Adrspach Climbing Body
Růžičková, Johana ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
This thesis focuses on the mode in which climbing in Adrspach rocks acompannied by risk forms the Adrspach climbing body. Its aim lies in contributing to current knowledge of individuals voluntarily participating in risk taking through the eyes of anthropology of the body. The thesis is based on edgework (Lyng, 1990), social-psychological theory of risk-taking made by Stephen Lyng and the following researches of other authors (West and Allin, Brymer, Laurendeau) and it borrows the term of edge as the key concept of forming a risk-facing body. Such body is created on the anthropological basis of Nancy Scheper-hughes and Margaret Lock's mindful body, Thomas Csordas's somatic modes of attention and Marcel Mauss's habitus. The idea of Adrspach climbing body also derives from an already existing concept of climbing body of british "adventure climbers" described by Neil Lewis. The intention of this approach is to connect these theoretical streams and in this fashion widen the current knowledge of human perception of risk-taking and the emotion of fear and to present the form of human body facing danger in relation with both individuality and social bonds. The findings about Adrspach climbing body are based on both ethnographical and autoethnographical research conducted in Adrspach and nine in-depth...
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Edgework:The Application of Concept of Voluntary Risk Taking on Recreational Drug Use
Boušková, Kateřina ; Kyselá, Eva (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the work was to introduce Stepheen Lyng's concept of voluntary risk-taking called edgework, and to find a different answer to the question, why in postmodern society individuals need to excite emotions elicited by edgework activities such as recreational drug use. Thesis thus explains what is the cause of the need to excite such edgework elicit emotions. Stephen Lyng based his concept on the synthesis of Marx and Mead, the so-called macro and micro levels of social structures, in which individuals are frustrated by work and seek their own self through extreme leisure activities. From the viewpoint of Gilles Lipovetsky, these activities can be perceived as part of individualistic hedonism. Individuals lose their own identity in a consumer society and try to find their own self through the need of satisfaction of their ego, the sense of pleasure and affluence. It is the edgework activity of recreational drug use, which helps individuals to satisfy all of these needs. Upon this very activity we can demonstrate the consequences of the consumer society. From the point of view of Gilles Lipovetsky, the voluntary risk taking then may not be a question of choice but the necessity.
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Edgework:The Application of Concept of Voluntary Risk Taking on Recreational Drug Use
Boušková, Kateřina ; Kyselá, Eva (advisor) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
The aim of the work was to introduce Stepheen Lyng's concept of voluntary risk-taking called edgework, and to find a different answer to the question, why in postmodern society individuals need to excite emotions elicited by edgework activities such as recreational drug use. Thesis thus explains what is the cause of the need to excite such edgework elicit emotions. Stephen Lyng based his concept on the synthesis of Marx and Mead, the so-called macro and micro levels of social structures, in which individuals are frustrated by work and seek their own self through extreme leisure activities. From the viewpoint of Gilles Lipovetsky, these activities can be perceived as part of individualistic hedonism. Individuals lose their own identity in a consumer society and try to find their own self through the need of satisfaction of their ego, the sense of pleasure and affluence. It is the edgework activity of recreational drug use, which helps individuals to satisfy all of these needs. Upon this very activity we can demonstrate the consequences of the consumer society. From the point of view of Gilles Lipovetsky, the voluntary risk taking then may not be a question of choice but the necessity.
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