Beta and bolt hangers: An Actor-Network approach to storying the Niagara Escarpment

dc.contributor.authorStinson, Michela Janelle
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-03T13:43:14Z
dc.date.available2019-09-03T13:43:14Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-03
dc.date.submitted2019-08-28
dc.description.abstractRock climbing is a messy practice that assembles dynamic landscapes, discursive regimes, processes of defacing, and the interferences of diverse more-than-humans (Barratt, 2012; Rickly, 2017; Rossiter, 2007). This thesis engages Actor-Network Theory to illuminate how the bolt hanger operates as a material-discursive token beyond the signification of a specific climbing route—as a representation of local ethics, a prompt of affect, and a delineation of territory. In their material manifestations, bolt hangers are employed within the practice of sport climbing as permanent fixtures to which climbers affix protective equipment. The placement of bolt hangers therefore interacts with practices of safety, route-finding, and beta: the sequence of movements unique to completing a climbing route (Phillips et al., 2012). Beta is further established, reinforced, and resisted through climbing practice in abundant, material-discursive ways. Orderings of beta are thus considered a more-than-human, relational configuration (Ness, 2011). In this context, beta becomes an entanglement of affect, ethic, and territory as sport climbing is recursively ordered. This thesis ultimately considers the material-discursive beta contained within the bolt hanger, and how the bolt hanger signifies a certain defacing of false binaries of human/nonhuman and nature/culture as it moves to translate the many tourismscapes of the Niagara Escarpment (Barad, 2007; Barratt, 2012; Rossiter, 2007; van der Duim, 2007).en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/15010
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectrock climbingen
dc.subjecttourismen
dc.subjectactor-network theoryen
dc.subjectmethodologyen
dc.subjectaffecten
dc.subjectposthumanismen
dc.subjectethicen
dc.subjectterritoryen
dc.titleBeta and bolt hangers: An Actor-Network approach to storying the Niagara Escarpmenten
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentRecreation and Leisure Studiesen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineRecreation and Leisure Studiesen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws.comment.hiddenThe word 'beta' (in the title and whenever used in the abstract) should be italicized. I have taken away the period after my name for copyright as per my first revision. As per the second revision, the list of figures is part of the front matter and is not required to be part of the Table of Contents.en
uws.contributor.advisorGrimwood, Bryan
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Applied Health Sciencesen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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