L’alpinisme, un « quasi-sport » au service d’une élite sociale et masculine

Mountaineering was invented in Victorian England in the mid-19th century by men from the British social elite, who defined its values, principles and rules - in a word, its “ spirit ”. This spirit embodied amateur and bourgeois sporting values that mountaineers strove to defend at all costs, believi...

Descripció completa

Guardat en:
Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Moraldo, Delphine
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Français
Publicat: 2024
Matèries:
Accés en línia:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Descripció
Sumari:Mountaineering was invented in Victorian England in the mid-19th century by men from the British social elite, who defined its values, principles and rules - in a word, its “ spirit ”. This spirit embodied amateur and bourgeois sporting values that mountaineers strove to defend at all costs, believing that mountaineering was threatened by the developments that were taking place in other sports at the time: democratisation, professionalisation and commercialisation.