Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
This article aims at characterizing the multiple appropriations of surfing in the Hawaiian Islands (more specifically in the island of Oahu) by various institutional actors and groups of social agents within the investments of public authorities are very limited. This investments and the most consta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Éditions Touristiques Européennes
2016-09-01
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| Series: | Mondes du Tourisme |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1211 |
| Summary: | This article aims at characterizing the multiple appropriations of surfing in the Hawaiian Islands (more specifically in the island of Oahu) by various institutional actors and groups of social agents within the investments of public authorities are very limited. This investments and the most constant and dynamic actions belong actually to the private field. Implying a break with an ethnocentered vision which would only transfer a french cultural “model”, these observations strengthen the analysis according to which the space of surfing in the Hawaiian Islands is relatively autonomous from the political field but is widely heteronomous towards the trade sector, particularly for heritage purposes. Surfing contributes besides to the “revival” of the Hawaiian culture: it is mobilized by Hawaiians organized in associations to maintain an ethnicised identification of the secular sport activities and to limit the tourist presence and expansion, particularly on the north coast of the island of Oahu, the “North Shore”, the Mecca of the world surfing. |
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| ISSN: | 2109-5671 2492-7503 |