‘Lines of Flight or Tethered Wings’?: A Deleuzian Analysis of Women-specific Adventure Skills Courses in the United Kingdom

In this article we examine women-specific adventure sport skills training courses in the UK utilising a feminist new materialist approach. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's (1987) concepts of ‘assemblage’, ‘lines territorialisation’, flight’, apply lens to ask: what type(s) material-discursive assemblages are produced through human non-human, discursive, non-discursive intra-actions courses? To extent do these enable participants engage with an alternative praxis ethics think, feel, practice, become otherwise? Our Deleuzian reading showed that affective capacity is currently limited by dominant understandings as bridges real outdoors primarily designed for women who lack confidence participate mixed-gender environments. However, also enabled productive lines flight practices related self, body, others, material objects, learning, movement, physical activity emerge. These were both characterised supported less instrumental hierarchical flows relations openness not knowing.