risking bodies in the wild the “corporeal unconscious” of american adventure culture（冒着身体在野外的u201c肉体的无意识的u201d美国的冒险文化）.pdfVIP

Journal of Sport Social Issues Volume 33 Number 3 Risking Bodies in the Wild August 2009 257-284 © 2009 SAge Publications The “Corporeal Unconscious” 10.1177/0193723509338863 of American Adventure Culture hosted at Sarah Jaquette Ray University of Alaska-Southeast At the heart of American adventure sports is the appeal of personal challenge that has roots in 19th-century “wilderness cults.” Preserving wilderness and testing oneself against it were part of a search for moral, physical, and even national purity. But, as critics have begun to argue, racism, expansion, and exclusion underpin the wilderness movement. Although these exclusions have been identified, there has been less atten- tion to these exclusions in contemporary adventure culture and environmental thought, which borrow values from the early wilderness movement and suggest that an environ- mental ethic arises from risking the body in the wild. By examining adventure culture through disability studies, this article exposes the relationship between environmental- ism and ableism. It argues that disability is the category of “otherness” against which both