■The commitment of participants to a project especially under extreme conditions, such as a polar expedition, has a vital bearing on its end result. But how can one apprehend the very notion of commitment? First, we distinguish the actors' "declared" motivations from what actually mobilizes them in the situation. Second, we use notions of mobilization, norms, and sensibilities in order to understand this phenomenon. They throw a light on the participants' behavior throughout the polar expedition and the project's progress. Our conclusions lead to a reconsideration of how to recruit for project teams, highlighting as they do, on the one hand, the importance of commitment not just in terms on intensity but also of meaning, and on the other, the difficulty of using this criterion for recruiting insofar as this commitment may be separate from the motivation expressed.
Notre contribution livre les conclusions principales d’un travail d’interprétation des matériaux issus d’une série d’études de terrain dans le champ des pratiques corporelles (ici, le volley-ball). Elles prennent la forme de propositions pour penser les relations activité-expérience-incorporation. Notre éthologie phénoménologique des pratiques humaines ordinaires accorde le primat aux divers types de régularités repérables dans, par et après l’action en situation, et soutient que l’activité et l’expérience, toujours singulières et contingentes, peuvent être approchées utilement par une schématisation/condensation. Les résultats établissent l’existence de différents modes/mondes de pratique, émergeant d’une dialectique complexe et énigmatique entre sensibilité et conceptualisation en acte, valeurs et connaissances pratiques, normes et schèmes. Nous suggérons de porter l’attention sur un processus évolutif aboutissant à une structure [activité-expérience-corps- monde] orientée par un sens structurant.
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