+41 27 205 73 23 This paper proposes a conceptual tool, the expression 'playing with space', for the analysis of active sport tourism as a meaningful social practice. The expression issues from practice theories and pragmatic understandings of space, which emphasize the processual and contextual dimensions of human action and seek to seize altogether the corporealities and shared conceptions that constitute action. On such views, sport tourists are considered as reflexive and embodied beings, enjoying sensations, mobilities and places, and constantly (re)making sense of their own practices. I argue that the notion of 'play' allows for a comprehensive understanding of the ways active sport tourists engage with space, where space is viewed as an object or material for this play. Three major dimensions of active sport tourism are then identified: a set of playful and game-like practices with global space resulting in shared imaginaries and large-scale mobilities; a kinaesthetic play, based on freedom and sensations and deeply engaged in the materiality of the places; and the omnipresent media practices that support the other dimensions of play while being fully integrated into the experience of sport tourism. This conceptual framework is a way to better understand the motives and practices of sport tourists; it is also a way to underline wider trends of contemporary leisure cultures: such cultures are increasingly integrated into the daily spheres of activity, increasingly playful and increasingly mediatized. This picture (Figure 1) is one of the most famous views, of one of the most famous places, for the rock climbing community: it has been shot from the back of the Grande Grotta, in the Greek island of Kalymnos. A climber is being lowered down from a route, seemingly overlooking the deep blue water of the Mediterranean Sea and the rugged island of Telendos. The landscape is spectacular, the climbing potential huge, the rock near-perfect and the atmosphere relaxed:everything is gathered to make of this place one of the world's major spots for climbing tourism.Such a picture, iconic of the practice of active sport tourism, is the result of many spatial actions and conceptions of space. The climber as well as the photographer have flown there from abroad, attracted by the reputation of the place and by the prospect of having a good time; the climber has ascended the route before dangling at the end of the rope, enjoying the said landscape and the satisfaction of having achieved a route perceived as beautiful. In many respects, it is a highly pleasurable experience of space.By proposing to view active sport tourism as a playful practice of space, this article is an attempt to give one key, among others, to making sense of active sport tourism as a social practice. I will show how this perspective takes place in the present literature on sport, tourism and sport tourism; how this may apply to the several dimensions and several scales of those specific practices; and, in conclusion, how such a theoretical approach enri...

Dichotomies opposing the "virtual world" and "real life" persist in common discourses; they are frequent in outdoor sport tourism, where discursive, informational and digitally mediated practices might be viewed as hindering the experience and the contact with the environment. This chapter aims to understand such discursive oppositions among the participants, and to overcome them by documenting the integration of media practices in general within outdoor sport practices. Drawing on empirical work with travelling kayakers, paragliders and rock climbers, the chapter details wary and hostile views on media practices, then contrasts these views by showing how media practices aid or enable the coordination and communication of outdoor sport tourism activities.

La version d'édition de cet article a été publiée par la revue Norois (Presses Universitaires de Rennes). Elle est disponible àl 'adresse suivante : https://www.cairn.info/revue-norois-2017-2-page-41.htm Formalisation du capital environnemental et projet de territoire : le cas des Biosphärenparks autrichiens Formalisation of an « environmental capital » and regional development plans: the case of Austrian BiosphärenparksValérian GEFFROY et Samuel DEPRAZ Résumé :Les Biosphärenparks autrichiens, territoires distingués par un label de l'UNESCO pour leur gestion « durable », peuvent être efficacement analysés à travers la notion de « capital environnemental ». Celle-ci permet d'englober l'ensemble des valeurs, notamment non-économiques, attribuées aux objets de nature d'un espace donné, et surtout les relations sociales et culturelles qui élaborent ces valeurs. Nous tentons ici de montrer la pertinence d'une telle approche, relationnelle, constructiviste et holiste, pour la compréhension des projets de développement des territoires ruraux. Les Biosphärenparks constituent en effet une plate-forme de coordination des efforts de formalisation d'un capital environnemental ; nous entendons par là la mobilisation et la diffusion de valeurs liées à l'environnement sous la forme d'éléments de communication, de discours, qui mettent en correspondance ces valeurs avec des objets du territoire. Abstract :The Austrian Biosphärenparks, labelled by the UNESCO for their sustainable management, are usefully analysed through the concept of 'environmental capital'. This notion allows to encompass the diverse values -including the non-economic ones -attached to the "natural" features of a given space, as well as the social and cultural relations that shape those values. Here, we try to demonstrate the relevance of such an approach, altogether relational, constructivist and holistic, to the understanding of rural development plans. Indeed, the Biosphärenparks build a coordination platform for the formalisation of an environmental capital. By this term, we mean the mobilisation and diffusion of environment-linked values through discourses which match these values with features of the territory. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 'adresse suivante : https://www.cairn.info/revue-norois-2017-2-page-41.htm 'adresse suivante : https://www.cairn.info/revue-norois-2017-2-page-41.htm leur véritable rôle, celui de plate-forme de coordination des acteurs, de mise en commun des ressources et des savoir-faire du territoire et de catalyseur du discours environnementaliste. Les réalisations à leur actif relèvent en effet surtout de la communication autour de la qualité du territoire et de ses ressources, de la sensibilisation environnementale, et d'une commercialisation de produits locaux qui se présente comme respectueuse de cet environnement. En somme, il s'agit donc de mobiliser des ressourc...

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