Les dégagements silencieux des adolescents obèses à l’épreuve des normes corporelles en Éducation physique

Abstract

The article is based on an ethnographic survey of three case studies. It focuses on the supports that obese adolescents use to make themselves visible or invisible. This is the case in physical education where normative expectations are untenable for them. These students with atypical characteristics cushion the situation thanks to different forms of release: spatio-relational, feeling and temporal. Thus, between adjustment to norms and disengagement, there is a third way of behaving, release. These forms of release can shed different light on physical activity as a public health object. By taking the subject's side, the study offers a view of obese adolescents practice that goes far beyond the interest of energy expenditure.

Keywords

• physical activity
• public health
• release
• obesity
• body norms
• adolescence