Enthusiasms of Scale model boat clubs of Cornwall

Rogers, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9935-2879 and Parish, Marion (2022) Enthusiasms of Scale model boat clubs of Cornwall. In: Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, July 2022, Falmouth University.

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Abstract / Summary

Many seaside towns in Cornwall possess a human-made, Victorian era, boating lake. These watery, placid, civic structures tend to occur in towns where part of their peripheral boundary is defined by a much larger, uncontained and wild ocean. Boating lakes hark back to Victorian era leisure activities such as promenading, sporting lifestyles and model boat building. In this way, Cornish boating lakes are nostalgically imbued with nationalistic histories of industrialised prosperity and the associated leisure activities and nascent identities enabled by this socio-economic shift. Compared to more contemporary Cornish coastal leisure activities such as skate parks, kite surfing and coastal walking, model boat clubs and boating lakes are often spaces associated with indigenous members of the community from more elderly and poorer demographic groups. Model boat clubs are often spaces for the expression of a nostalgic connection to a nautical history of maritime boat building that has, on an industrial level, seemingly gone elsewhere. Communities of model boat owners create, maintain and pilot their boats with an enthusiasm that is inherently linked to and at the same time separate from the oceanic body of water that is often only a thin strip of tarmac away from where they practice their craft. This video presentation investigates, collects evidence and represents the geographically specific enthusiasms of the users of Cornwall’s boating lakes as evidence of a cultural phenomena that is specific to UK coastal leisure communities in the 21st century. Through the application of an interdisciplinary research methodology that uses ethnomethodology and journalistic interview techniques, this research investigates the cultural practices and opinions of those involved with model boat building in Cornwall.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Subjects:	Social Sciences
Courses by Department:	The School of Film & Television
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Depositing User:	Matthew Rogers
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2024 09:31
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2024 09:59
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5576

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