Globalization, the market and outdoor adventure

Loynes, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9779-7954 (2013) Globalization, the market and outdoor adventure. In: Pike, Elizabeth and Beames, Simon, (eds.) Outdoor adventure and social theory. Routledge Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK, pp. 135-146.

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Abstract

Access to outdoor adventure in the UK has a long history of power struggles between social classes. In the late nineteenth century, the working classes were increasingly able to travel on the cheap railways and were gaining the right to have weekends off and take paid holidays. Some of the middle classes attempted to prevent them reaching places such as the Lake District by opposing the construction of the railways. They claimed that the working classes did not have the education with which to properly appreciate the sublime landscapes of the British coasts and mountains (Williams, 2002). The upper classes had an even
more effective strategy, as they owned much of the land and excluded others from it. This led to the mass trespass movements of the 1930s (Glyptis, 1991). It was only in 2000 that the law commonly known as the right to roam restored the right of access for all to open country in England and Wales (Pearlman Hougie & Dickinson, 2000). In Scotland, the ‘right to roam’ was never lost, but was bitterly fought over, nonetheless. Struggles to access land are still not fully resolved, as access to rivers and coastline continues to be a contentious issue.

Item Type:	Book Section
Publisher:	Routledge Taylor & Francis
ISBN:	9780415532679
Departments:	Institute of Science and Environment > Outdoor Studies Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
Additional Information:	This is an accepted manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in 'Outdoor adventure and social theory' on 10 April 2013, available online: https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415532679
Depositing User:	Christopher Loynes
Date Deposited:	14 Mar 2016 15:28
Last Modified:	10 Dec 2024 11:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2057

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