How do the inhabitants relate to the outer-urban paths in Balagne (Corsica): walking to re-invent the city
Studying the perception of inhabitants about the outer-urban paths in Balagne (Corsica) should allow us to analyse the impact of progressions on the edge of urbanity and durality on the dynamic of territorial appropriation. This article starts by presenting the ethnographic study conducted since 2013. It then focuses on body postures during the walks and the mobilization of a sensitive approach. The point is to understand how people relate to places emotionnaly and what it tells us about their attachement to the territory. In a similar way, walkers’ discourses are analysed in order to determine how walking on the urban littoral allow one to define a belonging to the oeukoumène and rediscover oneself.