Output details

Angling in modernity: a tour through society, nature and embodied passion

This paper introduces, for the first time in the leisure/ tourism and the social sciences literatures, a critical cultural history and a theoretical exposition of one of the largest leisure pursuits in the western world: freshwater angling. From a social constructionist account of freshwater angling’s modern development, an actor-network theory informed interrogation is made to explain how angling is simultaneously social and natural. The paper argues that studying angling is an important vehicle for understanding society/nature relations more generally and points to fruitful avenues of research.