Laine CHANTELOUP, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
Bailly NOÉMIE, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, France
The French Alps are undergoing important socio-ecosystemic changes linked to climate change, the intensification of mountain sports and the development of facilities, which are transforming hunting activities in these territories. At the same time, hunting activities are increasingly criticized in French society and media coverage often boils down to opposing pro- and anti-hunting positions, whereas hunting can offer a different way of connecting to living beings (Stepanoff, 2021 ; Mounet et Chanteloup, 2019).
In this paper, we wish to question the relationship to naturality of mountain hunters by focusing on the human-animal co-habitation that emerges through mountain hunting practices. We mobilize the concept of "dwelling" (Stock, 2004; Ingold, 2000), to analyze through the framework of the lived experience, of the sensitive, but also of the representations, the being in the world of the hunters and their interrelations with animals and mountain environments. This triptych hunters-animals-mountain environments is studied through a quantitative survey by questionnaire conducted with more than 2000 hunters practicing in the mountains areas coupled with a qualitative survey based on interviews and ethnographic observations. We thus explore how hunters build a life with animals to better hunt them but also cohabit with the "wild part of the world" (Maris, 2018)
Mots clés : dwelling|hunt|animals|mountain |wild
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