Sporting Cultures and Territories: An Inventory of French Research Since the 1990s
Since the early 1990s, the study of relationships between sporting cultures and territories has become a rapidly growing field of research. A socio-spatial analysis is applied to a corpus of geographical, sociological, historical and ethnological texts relating to this question. Research is based on two types of frameworks: conceptual (space, spatiality, territory, territoriality) and inter-actional (physical, functional, organisational, existential), giving a thematic and theoretical perspective to this work. This inventory of different forms of scientific representation seeks to clarify the concept of the temporalized co-construction of sporting cultures and their action spaces.