| Titre | Cohabitation in Mountain Pastures: Tensions, Fantasies and Realities of Shepherds, Hut Caretakers and Outdoor Recreationists | |
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| Auteur | Myriam Ribert, Émilie Crouzat, Philippe Bourdeau, Victor Andrade, Hermann Dodier | |
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Revue | Revue de Géographie Alpine |
| Numéro | vol. 112, no 3, 2024 Négocier sa place en montagne. Faire l'expérience de la domination et de sa contestation : perspectives radicales | |
| Résumé anglais |
Mountains and their alpine pastures are places of passage and intersection: spaces where a multitude of actors coexist. Coveted by outdoor enthusiasts on a quest for nature and disconnection from daily life, these landscapes are undergoing profound changes and diversification of their uses. In mountain huts and alpine pastures, caretakers and shepherds have a front row seat to these changes. With no other choice but to adapt and come to terms with these new diverse uses, they are playing a key role – willingly or because they have no other option – in a new and contentious form of cohabitation of the mountains. The multiplication of uses and practices, recreational and pastoral, in these mountain environments can overlap and sometimes be in conflict with one another. In mountain pastures, or so-called “movement spaces”, claims to space can be precarious and are constantly called into question by new arrivals, requiring historical actors to defend and renegotiate their claims as well as their very identities, practices and perceptions. Our fieldwork1, carried out in three different alpine sites in the context of the Sentinel Alpine Huts and Pastures programs, underscores the conflictual dimension of new patterns of cohabitation. Ranging from power struggles to compromise, increasingly dominant recreational practices and perceptions are replacing more traditional pastoral land-use, which tends to be both poorly understood and at times invisible for outdoor recreationists. With shepherds facing isolation and mounting pressure from both tourism and climate change, rifts between actors are expanding as is the need for dialogue, education and mediation. Source : Éditeur (via OpenEdition Journals) |
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| Article en ligne | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/13643 |
