In the face of the changes that are currently affecting the field of physical and sports activities, the notions of social responsibility, solidarity and affinity must be rethought through the filter of new issues: integration through sport, governance, sport-health, conquering new audiences…

Taking as its object "the vote in the village", in the 20th and 21st centuries this book focuses on building a sociology and history “at ground level” of local political practices.

How is the commitment of the public authorities in the choice of recourse and the justification of the demolition in the context of the housing crisis in France based on? What arguments are put forward, what strategies are the actors deploying for what expected results?

Losing a loved one is a break in our lives. This loss interacts with a collective, the places where we live or even the social and political structures which normalize our lives. Faced with the apparent loneliness of mourning, the death of the loved one questions our identity as fundamentally rela-tional beings.

Participatory housing is apprehended in this book as much by a sociology of the city, as a relation to space and to others, as by taking into account public action and aspirations to limit the processes of individualization peculiar to our contemporary societies. It is the result of a team formed in 2013, the dynamics of which are based on the desi

Observing its division and distribution enables to bring light on the way wealth is shared and to realize how societies function. It draws special attention to the monopolization by some of resources and privileges, and the socio-spatial inequalities that result from it.

How are union representatives' practices recomposed? What are they actually doing in their mandates? What processus of professionalization can be observed in the area of trade union representation?

Project of emancipation or tool of survival, answer to a claim of autonomy being able to be diverted by the management, the self-management opens tracks to imagine tomorrow's work and world.

In the seventies, French urban-development agencies and engineering firms were regular users of urban simulation games from the United States.