Résumés des communications présentées
Communication présentée par Peter DONNELLY :
CR35 - Quelques pensées sur les relations entre les sociologies francophones et anglophones du sport
Peter DONNELLY
University of Toronto - TORONTO, Canada
Résumé : The formal foundation of the sociology of sport is generally considered to be the 1964 establishment of the International Committee for the Sociology of Sport (ICSS/CISS) in Geneva. One of the Committee’s first acts was to apply for membership as a Research Committee in the International Sociological Association (ISA/AIS). This action was proposed, and facilitated, by Joffre Dumazedier, a founding member of ICSS/CISS, who had previously established an ISA/AIS Research Committee (RC 13) for the sociology of leisure. This paper provides an initial attempt to explore some similarities and differences, the waves of close quasi-relations and relative periods of franco/anglo isolation. These range from an initial fascination with Brohm, to Bourdieu’s keynote address at the CISS/ICSS meeting in Paris (1985), to the struggles between anglo-Foucaultistas and anglo-Bourdieuites, to the anglo love affairs with Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Lacan, Latour and Maffesoli. The « capture » of sociology of sport by sport management in France preceded the current wave of capture by sport management in North America. And the 50th anniversary of AISS/ISSA was celebrated in Paris in 2015. The paper will also consider the politics of language, the politics of translation, and evidence that relations between francophone and anglophone sociology of sport are contingent on francophone sociologists’ capacity with the English language.
