Negotiations of minority ethnic rugby league players in the Cathar country of France

This article is based on new empirical, qualitative research with minority ethnic rugby league players in the southwest of France. Drawing on similar research on rugby league in the north and the south of England, the article examines how rugby league, traditionally viewed as a white, working-class male game (Collins, 2006; Denham, 2004; Spracklen, 1995, 2001) has had to re-imagine its symbolic boundaries as they are constituted globally and locally to accommodate the needs of players from minority ethnic backgrounds. In particular, the article examines the sense in which experiences of minority ethnic rugby league players in France compare with those of their counterparts in England (Spracklen, 2001, 2007), how rugby league is used in France to construct identity, and in what sense the norms associated with the imaginary community of rugby league are replicated or challenged by the involvement of minority ethnic rugby league players in France. Questions about what it means to be (provincial, national) French (Kumar, 2006) are posed, questions that relate to the role of sport in the construction of Frenchness, and in particular the role of rugby league (and union). © Copyright ISSA and SAGE Publications

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Along-strike thickness variations of décollement levels controlling lateral changes in fold-and-thrust belts: the Barbastro-Balaguer Anticline (Southern Pyrenees)

European Geosciences Union General Assembly (2017. Viena)The subsurface vertical and lateral distribution of two evaporitic levels (Middle-Upper Triassic and Eocene) is here studied to better understand their role as a controlling factor on the geometry and kinematics of the central part of the South Pyrenean deformation front. Field work with hundreds of bedding attitudes, 5 exploration boreholes (up to 5000 m deep), the residual Bouguer anomaly and the interpretation of 27 seismic reflection profiles (approximately 440 km of sections) crossing the different allochthonous units and the adjacent Ebro foreland basin have been analysed in this work. Subsoil information is crucial because part of the studied area is extensively covered by the Oligocene-Miocene molasse that prevents any direct observation of the structure underneath to be done. Interpreted key horizons and faults have been identified from the lithological description of partially reinterpreted lithological well data and surface geology. Lithological well data has been anchored to seismic profiles by means of sonic log data. Kingdom software has been used to perform the 2D interpretation of seismic reflection profiles, supported by 2.5D gravity modelling, in a georeferenced workspace and then, surfaces of key horizons and faults were built and assembled together in a 3D model.Unidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaUnidad Asociada en Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaUnidad Asociada en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, EspañaDepartamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, EspañaDepartamento de Física, Universidad de Burgos, EspañaInstituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaInstitut de Ciències de la Terra Jaume Almera, Españ

Entre innovation et tradition : la difficile construction d’un « monde commun » dans un espace naturel de moyenne montagne

International audienceL’étude réalisée porte sur un espace naturel de moyenne montagne – le col du Barioz – situé dans le massif de Belledonne, à proximité de Grenoble. La présence sur le site d’acteurs très variés produit des interactions multiples entre acteurs sportifs, touristiques, institutionnels, qui s’entrecroisent avec des usages plus traditionnels du lieu comme les activités cynégétiques et pastorales. L’objectif de l’étude est d’investir un espace qui relève de la nature ordinaire (Mougenot, 2003) et de comprendre comment l’organisation du site se transforme au gré des changements et des innovations. L’enquête repose sur une série d’entretiens semi-directifs avec les principaux acteurs du site. Le contexte d’action se caractérise par une conflictualité exacerbée opposant différents acteurs sportifs et non-sportifs : les skieurs et les snowboardeurs, les raquettistes et les skieurs de fond, la chasse et les différentes pratiques sportives, les pratiques itinérantes comme le VTT ou le tourisme équestre et les activités pastorales. En mobilisant les outils conceptuels de la sociologie de l’acteur-réseau (Latour, 2006), nous montrerons comment certaines innovations sportives participent à déconstruire des réseaux existants en multipliant les conflits. Par exemple, la mise en place d’une redevance pour la raquette à neige a été un médiateur qui a défait le réseau touristique. Nous mettrons également en évidence la manière dont s’organise la résistance au changement, qui se traduit parfois par l’exclusion du site d’activités sportives dérangeantes, qui sont confrontées à d’autres usages traditionnels du lieu

Salt structures and vertical axis rotations; a case study in the Barbastro-Balaguer anticline, Southern Pyrenees

European Geosciences Union General Assembly (2017. Viena)Vertical axis rotations are common in all deformation settings. At larger scales, for example in fold and thrust belts, they are usually related to differential shortening along strike and this may be caused by a number of reasons (interplay of plate boundaries, sedimentary wedges, detachment level distribution, etc.). At smaller scales, local stress fields, interference of non-coaxial deformation phases, development of non-cylindrical structures, etc. may play an important role to accommodate significant magnitudes of rotation. Apart from their implication in the truly 4D understanding of geological structures, the occurrence of vertical axis rotation usually precludes the application of most 3D restoration techniques and thus, increases the uncertainty in any 3D reconstruction. Salt structures may form in different geological settings, but focusing on compressive regimes, very little is known about the relation between their geometry and kinematics and their ability to accommodate vertical axis rotations (i.e. local or regional lateral gradients of shortening).Unidad de Zaragoza, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaUnidad Asociada en Ciencias de la Tierra, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaUnidad Asociada en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, EspañaUnidad de Magnetometría, Universidad de Vigo, EspañaDepartamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad de Zaragoza, EspañaInstituto Geológico y Minero de España, EspañaInstituto de Ciencias de la Tierra Jaume Almera, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Españ