Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes

The Séolane is a university centre that welcomes tourists and researchers, some of whom are on holiday. Located in Barcelonnette, a French town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region, this unique tourist attraction featuring scientific culture has led the centre’s researchers to conduct a social expe...

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Main Author: Alain Schoeny
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Language:English
Published: Institut de Géographie Alpine
Series:Revue de Géographie Alpine
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rga/10350
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description The Séolane is a university centre that welcomes tourists and researchers, some of whom are on holiday. Located in Barcelonnette, a French town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region, this unique tourist attraction featuring scientific culture has led the centre’s researchers to conduct a social experiment and scientific mediation in close connection with their professional environment. In order to answer the question of the cultural, psychological and social function of this research, this article presents a constructivist and systemic epistemological approach to social representations that are based on the human experience of participating in tourism and the research missions at the centre. Through documenting this scientific activity by means of qualitative analysis, this paper posits that the Séolane’s scientific tourism opens up a line of questioning on responsible mountain tourism that has not yet been researched within the framework of a transition to recreational use.
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spelling doaj.art-8e2544d1ed774877b2a2b07558a764d32024-02-14T15:04:24ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-7426110110.4000/rga.10350Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardesAlain SchoenyThe Séolane is a university centre that welcomes tourists and researchers, some of whom are on holiday. Located in Barcelonnette, a French town in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region, this unique tourist attraction featuring scientific culture has led the centre’s researchers to conduct a social experiment and scientific mediation in close connection with their professional environment. In order to answer the question of the cultural, psychological and social function of this research, this article presents a constructivist and systemic epistemological approach to social representations that are based on the human experience of participating in tourism and the research missions at the centre. Through documenting this scientific activity by means of qualitative analysis, this paper posits that the Séolane’s scientific tourism opens up a line of questioning on responsible mountain tourism that has not yet been researched within the framework of a transition to recreational use.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/10350scientific tourismscientific mediationSéolanequalitative analysisexperimentation
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Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
Revue de Géographie Alpine
scientific tourism
scientific mediation
Séolane
qualitative analysis
experimentation
title Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
title_full Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
title_fullStr Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
title_full_unstemmed Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
title_short Le Pôle d’accueil universitaire Séolane de Barcelonnette : analyse qualitative d’un tourisme scientifique entre expérimentation et médiation montagnardes
title_sort le pole d accueil universitaire seolane de barcelonnette analyse qualitative d un tourisme scientifique entre experimentation et mediation montagnardes
topic scientific tourism
scientific mediation
Séolane
qualitative analysis
experimentation
url https://journals.openedition.org/rga/10350
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