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TABLE OF CONTENTS:General Introduction ; [Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, Alessandro Porrovecchioand Olivier Sirost] Part I: Body Ecology: The Basic Concepts Introductionto Part I; [Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost] 1. Central Themes in BodyEcology; [Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost] 2. Georges Hébert(1875-1957): A Naturalist’s Invention of Body Ecology; [Pierre PhilippeMeden] 3. The Concept of ‘Body Schema’ in Merleau-Ponty’s Accountof Embodied Subjectivity; [Jan Halák] 4. Body, Flow and Learning: FromFeldenkrais to Csikszentmihalyi; [Adjoa Domelevo] 5. Sport, Health andAcademia: A Reflexive Approach to the Disenchantment and theRe-Enchantment of the Body; [Alessandro Porrovecchio] 6. TheNaturalising Process of Technique: The Antimony of Nature and Culturethrough the Lens of Chinese Practices; [Alexandre Legendre and StéphaneIbrahime] 7. Health, Well-Being and Sport: Some Personal Reflections ;[Andrew Bloodworth] Part II: Emersion in the Leisure Environment andthe Recosmologisation of Sport Introduction to Part II; [Bernard Andrieuand Alessandro Porrovecchio] 8. Ecological Transition and RecreativeLeisure in Nature ; [Jean Corneloup, Pascal Mao and Philippe Bourdeau]9. Naked Surfing in Tambada, Brazil: An Example of Body Ecology;[Pétrucia da Nobrega, Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost] 10. Body Ecologyand Urban Sports: Parkour as an Interdisciplinary Immersion in the CityEnvironment; [Florian Lebreton and Bernard Andrieu] 11. Heidegger,Sport and Body Ecology; [Irena Martínková and Jim Parry] 12. TheRecosmologisation of the World: From Monte Verita to Naturism ; [OlivierSirost]; 13. Body Ecology and Academic Well-Being: What SustainableHealth Can Be Offered to Adolescents through the Practice of Body ArtActivities? ; [Gilles Lecocq]; PART III: Sensory Ecology and AesthesiologyIntroduction to Part III; [Bernard Andrieu and Jim Parry] 14. Bodies in theWind: Dance and Nature on Redinha Beach, Natal, Brazil; [TerezinhaPetrucia da Nóbrega] 15. ‘No pain no gain’: The Puritan Ethic inBody-Building ; [Eric Perera and Marie Gomez] 16. The Emersion ofSyncope in Freediving: Moderation and Immoderation; [Mary Shirrer];17. The Emersion of Sensation in Slacklining; [Lionel Chavaroche] 18.The Emersion of Involuntary Gesture in the Vertiginous Circus Arts;[Bernard Andrieu and Haruka Okui]

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Body Ecology andEmersive LeisureEdited by Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, AlessandroPorrovecchio and Olivier Sirost

Series: Ethics and Sport

The emerging field of body ecology offers fresh insightsinto how the body engages with its surroundingenvironment through consciousness, perception,knowledge and emotion. In this groundbreaking collection,leading scholars of sport, leisure and philosophy draw onresearch on topics as diverse as surfing, freediving,slacklining, parkour, bodybuilding, dance and circus arts toflesh out the concept of body ecology and its potential forhelping us understand our connection with the worldaround us. Shedding new light on the possibilities ofphysical cultural studies, it is fascinating reading for allstudents and scholars with an interest in sport, leisure,philosophy and the body.

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