An Ethnography of Urban Exploration: Unpacking Heterotopic Social Space

This book analyses a unique leisure world that has been built around a newly emerging phenomenon known as urban exploration; the art of exploring human—made environments which are generally abandoned or hidden from sight of the public eye. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, Bingham provides a detailed and critical investigation of urban exploration as a form of leisure that is about the coming together of drifting performers who, in their celebration of ‘rebellion’ and ‘de...