Politiques d’équipements sportifs et évolution post-industrielle en région stéphanoise

Abstract

In parallel of socio-politic construction of french sports model wich rest on an effort in favour of sports (from mass to elite), the sports development in sixites and seventies is greatly marked by the keynesian stamp. The state build many basic amenities (stadium, gymnasium, swimming-pool), for Saint-Etienne region and the whole national territory. Since the eighties, the great logics of sports amenities production are shaked by two processes : the one political and overall, the decentralisation, the other socio-economic and local, the desindustrialisation (with decreasing of support of great industrial firms to sports development).This double deficit of finance cause one definite slower in the construction of sports amenities, without a real keynesianism of local authorities, all the more since sports amnity takes in short consideration sociologic evolutions of sports (free practice in nature or in the city : jogging, mountain bike, roller …). In this post-industrial and post-keynesian transition, sports amenities are note disregarded : they are from a new type, more specialized and they are a matter for, quite often, politic rouandabout logics and marketing logics (for high level sports). In this last case, public action in favour of sports is questionned, or even challenged, by powerful private actors, wici is well showed by the evolution of amenities in and around G. Guichard stadium.

Keywords

• state
• sports amenities
• public politics
• sports practices
• local authorities