Adventure monuments: entanglements of history, matter and practice

Katsogridakis, Georgios (2026) Adventure monuments: entanglements of history, matter and practice. Sport, Education and Society. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1357-3322

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Abstract

This theoretical paper departs from the premise that local forms of adventure are often at risk of being erased or appropriated by colonial-capitalist systems such as tourism or the adventure sport industry. This phenomenon usually sidelines the needs of local communities and jeopardises the health of local ecosystems in the process. In suggesting that part of the problem lies in how the connection between adventure, place and culture is often theorised, the author goes on to introduce the term ‘Adventure Monuments’ – a concept that frames places of adventure as materially vibrant and challenges capitalist narratives that primarily view adventure as a human spectacle or commodity. Framing places as adventure monuments centres their material significance as relational and political spaces where adventure has been slowly co-authored by human and nonhuman agents. This approach draws from posthuman discourse to frame adventure, place and culture as mutually constitutive agencies that jointly evolve and become within a complex weave of relations involving multiple human and non-human actors. After its key theoretical premises are discussed, this perspective is applied to a case (The Trampolino of Rhodes) to demonstrate its epistemological value and how it can contribute to the wider effort to decolonise adventure at both local and global levels.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Adventure, monument, place, posthuman, decolonial
Depositing User:	JISCRouter
Date Deposited:	01 Apr 2026 11:51
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2026 10:02
URI:	https://marjon.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/18109
Related URLs:	https://www.tan ... 22.2026.2642364

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