By Phil Macnaghten,John Urry
the sociology of the physique has downplayed the level to which the physique is found in, and concerned with, nature, the nation-state, the outside, panorama and wilderness.
The e-book argues that our bodies in nature are topic to novel, advanced and contradictory possibilities of freedom and get away, surveillance and tracking. The booklet publications readers in the course of the a number of ways that those physically possibilities and constraints are temporally and spatially prepared and managed.
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