| Titre | Naissance et développement d'un loisir urbain : la forêt de Fontainebleau | |
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| Auteur | Bernard Kalaora | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 83, 1981 | |
| Page | 97-115 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Emergence and Development of a Leisure for City Dwellers : the Forest of Fontainebleau
The analysis of the social uses of forest spaces in the urban periphery constitutes a new field of study for sociologists. In the Paris region, the forest is supposed to serve as a leisure space for city dwellers «hungry» for pure air and silence ; but since when, how and for whom does the forest serve this purpose ? The case of Fontainebleau shows that in order to understand the means of penetration of the forest, it is necessary to decipher the social codes which are expressed in representations shared by certain groups, in art, or in the language and practices of forest managers. The forest then appears no longer as the antithesis of the city, but just as the other side of the urban system, its mirror : for the intellectual elite, the forest provides one opportunity among others to put into practice their cultivated attitudes, and to distinguish themselves from the masses ; for the middle class, it is experienced as a mean of access to a lifestyle oriented toward comfort and modernity ; as for the working classes, they paradoxically find not a single element familiar or compatible with their lifestyle. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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