Sociologies (Jun 2016)
Transactions dans la ville récréative contemporaine
Abstract
This papers explores how, in the recreational town – that of leisure activities, festivals, non-institutional sports and (counter)cultural practices – space can be seen as a social mediator, participating in and/or constructing transactions with other social actors and agents in the town. Two levels of social transaction –with oneself and with others – each engage with two forms of spatial transaction. Space is successively, or simultaneously, the setting, the object, the product and/or the collective actor at the heart of the interaction process and the creation of a collective voice and/or joint decision-making in which urban actors have a large share.
