Embodiment and social and environmental action in nature-based sport: Spiritual spaces

Leisure Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 495-512

  Humberstone, Barbara ^a  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autoethnography; nature based sport; physical activity; recreation; sociology; spiritual

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; METHODOLOGY; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SPORT;

EID: 84858126757     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2011.602421     Document Type: Article

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