A Vertical World
The Eastern Alps and Modern Mountaineering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kerwin Lee Klein |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 519-548 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2011.01417.x |
| OpenAlex | W1599390572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
New sporting practices of modernity were products of complex dynamics of cultural remaking. Most accounts of the emergence of alpinism describe the new activity as part of modernization. As ways of seeing mountains changed, so did ways of moving in them. This involved a sharp break with the British gentlemanly preference for climbing without technical assistance. Modernists and alpinists found a new common ground in the Ostalpen of Tirol, a place commonly represented as one of the most traditional and Catholic locations in central Europe. In mountaineering, we may imagine a similar turn to that of artistic modernists. This article explores how the region pulled together two apparently oppositional cultural forces. In this process, there is no simple grand narrative of modernization that creates an international sporting culture of the mountains: on the one hand, in popular culture, the Ostalpen and the Dolomites in particular represented premodern forms of religiosity, from Orientalist aesthetics to the most conservative styles of Catholicism; on the other hand, the region served as a proving ground for the most technologically advanced and self-consciously modern forms of alpinism
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Climbing · Literature · Modernity · Modernization theory · Mountaineering · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Religiosity · Sociology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · History · Law
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Hiking the Via Alpina
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Beyond the Brink
The construction of an alpine landscape
Alpine Modern
Modern Mountains From the Enlightenment to the Anthropocene
Remoteness on a Vertical Axis – Social Dynamics of Ski Touring in the Alps
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |