The concept of ‘dwelling’ through leisure sport / L’habiter par les loisirs sportifs

International audienceThis issue devoted to ‘dwelling’ sets out to explore leisure sports in a newlight. It is inspired by and complements the many studies conducted byphilosophers, geographers, anthropologists, and urban planners around thenotion of ‘dwelling’, not in the sense of residing, but in the sense of inhabiting.In the works of Martin Heidegger (1951), Lucien Febvre (1952), and AugustinBerque (1990/2000), this concept is used to describe man’s ecological andcultural relationship with the Earth. The concept of dwelling has its counterpartin building and reciprocally, as highlighted by Tim Ingold (2000), withleisure sport developing out of this tension. Dwelling is considered to be thepractice of frequenting geographical spaces in the World (Stock, 2004). Weuse this notion to focus on the analysis of the human experience and toexplore the meanings of the act of dwelling