Sports in “project area” or the winding roads to intermunicipal cooperation
At a time when France has committed to new territorial reforms, this article examines the effects of strengthening intermunicipal cooperation from the processes implemented in the field of public sports. Building on several studies, this analysis is centered on the stakeholders and the way they can use this rescaling. It also examines the models of sports organization which are affected by these changes. If “project areas” encompassing groups of municipalities are regularly selected and presented as “good” coordinative and regulative spatial scales of public sports organizing, the ability to format such organizing and to impose it on other actors still remains a considerable challenge.