Author: Jean-Pierre Augustin
Publisher:
ISBN: 2760536718
Category : SPORTS & RECREATION
Languages : fr
Pages : 240

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Author: Romain Roult
Publisher: PUQ
ISBN: 2760536726
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : fr
Pages : 281

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Le sport se pratique dans des lieux et des territoires et, dans certains cas, les façonne. Grâce aux adeptes de sports libres s’appropriant l’espace public et aux méga-événements sportifs agissant comme vecteur de développement, le sport devient un organisateur des territorialités urbaines et, donc, un objet géographique. Cet ouvrage, qui réunit les contributions de chercheurs du Québec, du Canada, de la France et des États-Unis, illustre, et ce dans des logiques urbaines et économiques devenues désormais mondiales, comment le sport, au sens large du terme, s’intègre ou s’immisce dans les politiques de développement des villes. Dans une approche pluridisciplinaire mêlant la géographie, l’urbanisme, la sociologie et l’histoire, il expose, d’une part, la manière dont certaines pratiques sportives s’organisent dans la ville et les liens sportifs qui unissent la ville à des territoires périurbains et ruraux. D’autre part, il présente une analyse des nouveaux mécanismes gestionnaires et économiques mis en place pour justifier l’utili­sation de fonds publics pour l’organisation de manifestations sportives et l’aménagement des équipements d’accueil. Comment vit le sport dans la ville ? Comment se construit-il dans cet espace et quelles sont ses incidences sur la population et la morphologie d’une métropole ? Ce sont là les réflexions qui animent les auteurs de ce livre qui apporte un éclairage neuf sur le sport dans plusieurs métropoles nord-américaines et européennes.

Author: Charly Machemehl
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030487091
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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The introduction of sports and recreational facilities into natural environments calls for reflection on their impact on fragile ecosystems. This book is unique in providing an interdisciplinary approach to the ecological restoration of urban and industrial degraded habitats and their use by nearby city-dwellers. For the first time ecologists, sociologists and anthropologists have worked together on particularly sensitive ecosystems such as rivers and estuaries to propose recovery strategies that allow their basic ecological functions to be restored, and which can benefit local populations through nature activities. Nonetheless, the use of natural spaces calls for the building of sustainable towns. This is why this book is distinctive in considering quality of life and well-being as stated objectives of modern river towns. Recently, leisure time has become a part of urban rhythms. In order to favour personal development, an extensive palette of leisure activities is considered by the authors: bird watching entertainment sports culture Many aspects including physical and psychological attributes in relation to the contemporary socio-political fabric are dealt with. While creating areas of freedom, landscaping also induces certain forms of practice and encourages certain social skills. Conversely, the book questions certain types of management based on mass consumption. Don’t they, in the end, aim to satisfy needs that are impermanent and shallow? The image of the contemporary town relies on urban planning projects which, in a global economy, seek to capture the interest of tourists and local populations. How can suitable, diligent planning be successfully combined with both creative design and ecological care? This book demonstrates how biology and sociology can (and should) work in harmony in order to promote an ecosystem approach to environmental management.

Author: John Bale
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0419252304
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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In this fully revised and updated edition of his classic, discipline-defining text, John Bale comprehensively explores the relationships between sport, place, location and landscape.

Author: Sylvain Lefebvre
Publisher: Sainte-Foy : Presses de l'Université du Québec
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : fr
Pages : 268

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Le sport s'impose partout et façonne l'espace à sa manière. Cet ouvrage s'intéresse, d'une part, à l'impact du sport en milieu urbain et, d'autre part, à la justification d'une aide publique et aux impacts directs et indirects des franchises professionnelles sur les villes.

Author: Michel Agier
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745649017
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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Official figures classify some fifty million of the world’s people as 'victims of forced displacement'. Refugees, asylum seekers, disaster victims, the internally displaced and the temporarily tolerated - categories of the excluded proliferate, but many more are left out of count. In the face of this tragedy, humanitarian action increasingly seems the only possible response. On the ground, however, the 'facilities' put in place are more reminiscent of the logic of totalitarianism. In a situation of permanent catastrophe and endless emergency, 'undesirables' are kept apart and out of sight, while the care dispensed is designed to control, filter and confine. How should we interpret the disturbing symbiosis between the hand that cares and the hand that strikes? After seven years of study in the refugee camps, Michel Agier reveals their 'disquieting ambiguity' and stresses the imperative need to take into account forms of improvisation and challenge that are currently transforming the camps, sometimes making them into towns and heralding the emergence of political subjects. A radical critique of the foundations, contexts, and political effects of humanitarian action.

Author: Grant Jarvie
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134401639
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes: a clear and comprehensive structure unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport coverage of core topics and emerging areas extensive original research and new case study material. The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport.

Author: Guillaume Robin
Publisher: Presses Univ. Septentrion
ISBN: 275740217X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : fr
Pages : 250

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Cet ouvrage rassemble des articles répartis en 4 thèmes: les supporters et leur gestion; les facteurs de régulation du football; l'influence du droit et de l'économie sur la recomposition du football européen; l'art comme outil de réflexion, sur le ballon rond.

Author: Edward J. Malecki
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134154186
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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This book provides an up-to-date account of the technologies, organizations and dynamics which constitute the digital economy, and assesses the impacts they have on regions and communities.

Author: Jean-François Augoyard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576916
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Never before has the everyday soundtrack of urban space been so cacophonous. Since the 1970s, sound researchers have attempted to classify noise, music, and everyday sounds using concepts such as Pierre Shafer's sound object and R. Murray Schafer's soundscape. Recently, the most significant team of soundscape researchers in the world has been concerned with the effects of sounds on listeners.