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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Main Authors: Christophe Guibert, Vincent Coëffé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Éditions Touristiques Européennes 2016-09-01
Series:Mondes du Tourisme
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1211
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description 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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spelling doaj.art-3b3d2ad01dc54e2783c52eec375217e12022-12-22T00:24:05ZengÉditions Touristiques EuropéennesMondes du Tourisme2109-56712492-75032016-09-0110.4000/tourisme.1211Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)Christophe GuibertVincent CoëfféThis 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.http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1211appropriationautonomyinterestssurfingHawaiian Islands
spellingShingle Christophe Guibert
Vincent Coëffé
Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
Mondes du Tourisme
appropriation
autonomy
interests
surfing
Hawaiian Islands
title Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
title_full Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
title_fullStr Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
title_full_unstemmed Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
title_short Les enjeux composites de l’appropriation du surf. Variations sur les images et les usages sociaux à Oahu (Hawaii)
title_sort les enjeux composites de l appropriation du surf variations sur les images et les usages sociaux a oahu hawaii
topic appropriation
autonomy
interests
surfing
Hawaiian Islands
url http://journals.openedition.org/tourisme/1211
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