Santesih

TEACHING AND RESEARCH PROFESSORS

Nathalie LE ROUX

Lecturer

Specialization: Sociology of sports, work, and public action

Email:nathalie.le-roux@umontpellier.fr

Research topics 

  • Outdoor sports and recreation and vulnerabilities in the context of climate change
  • Accessibility to sports and outdoor recreation and participation of persons with disabilities
  • Outdoor sports and recreation and aging

Keywords

outdoor sports and recreation – climate change – accessibility – inequality – health – disability – aging

Publications

ORCID:0000-0001-9540-235X

IDREF:https://www.idref.fr/066887674

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-le-roux-16211745/

Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PdB14_UAAAAJ&hl=fr

Anne Marcellini

University professor

Specialization: Sociology of sports and adapted physical activities, Visual and film sociology

Email: anne.marcellini@umontpellier.fr

Research topics:
  • Depictions and representations of disabled bodies in images and media 
  • Integration through sport, destigmatization processes, and inclusive society
  • Sports categories and disability categories: interdependencies and reciprocal transformations
  • Visual approaches in the social sciences
Keywords:

Body, Sport, Images, Social representations, Media, Social integration, Inclusion, Social environments, Social movements, Activism, Social categorization

Publications and works:

ORCID: 0000-0003-1755-2314

Scopus Author

IdRef: 07823641X

IdHAL: Anne Marcellini

Google Scholar

Teaching topics:
  • Sociology of associations in the sports and health sector
  • Images of disabled bodies and societies
  • Research methodology
Christelle Marsault

HDR MCU

Specialization: Sociology, social history
Email: christelle.marsault(at)umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Head of the MEEF 2 Master's program

Head of STAPS Doctorates atDS

Prevention Assistants at the Santesih Laboratory

Research topics:

• Inclusive education for students with special educational needs in physical education
• Inclusivity: capability and enabling environment for students with special educational needs and disabilities
• Measures for implementing prescription sports and health programs.

Keywords:

Physical education and sports, health and fitness, capability, enabling environment, students with special educational needs

Recent productions

 – Works and project management:

• Marsault C. & Cornus S. (eds). (2014). Health and Physical Education: a pretext, realities. Paris: L’harmattan.

• Marsault C. (2009). Socio-history of physical education and sports. Paris: PUF.

– Review management

• Lefevre L. & Marsault C. (2022). "Physical Presence." Research & Education, 24 (online)

 – Main articles published in recent years:

• Knobé S. & Marsault C. (2025). "The singularization of a public health policy: the case of prescription sports and health programs in Strasbourg and Mulhouse." In Social and Solidarity Economy, Well-being, and Global Health. Reims: Presses universitaires de Reims (Epure). Forthcoming.

• Lefevre L. & Marsault C. (2022). "The role of objects as aids in thinking about an empowering situation." Research & Education, 23, HS CAPAS (online).

• Marsault C. & Lefevre L. (2022). "The physical presence of teachers." Professional knowledge to be developed through forum theater. Research & Education, 24 (online).

• Lefevre L. & Marsault C. (2021). "Silent disengagement among obese adolescents when challenged by body standards in physical education and sports." SociologieS (online).

Marsault C. (2021). "Health and sport: a new category of public action?" in Gasparini W. & Knobé S. (eds). Health and sport: from public action to social actors, Strasbourg: PUS.

• Marsault C. (2019). "Does teamwork promote innovation? A look at the collective decision-making process in physical education and sports." Research & Education. Varia (online)

• Lefèvre L. & Marsault C. (2018). "The BEP, an exceptional educational moment: perspectives from primary and secondary school teachers." La nouvelle revue de l'adaptation et de la scolarisation, 81, dossier on inclusive education and society, 1-11 .

• Marsault C. (2017). "Healthy sports: a medical, social, or athletic issue? The Strasbourg 'healthy sports on prescription' program as a cross-cutting political issue." Sciences Sociales et Sport No . 10, May. 21-49.

• Marsault C. (2016). "Prescription sports, distancing medicine: the Strasbourg program as seen by its educators." Public Health vol. 28/1. 163-167.

HDR: Professional knowledge: formatting and standardization. Defended in Strasbourg on January 20, 2023.

Teaching topics:

• History of the sport

• Social history and epistemology of physical education

• Introduction to research

• Methodology of CAPEPS writings

• Teaching in physical education didactics and pedagogy

ERIC PERERA

University Professor

Email:eric.perera@umontpellier.fr

Tel: 411 75 90 91

Roles and responsibilities:
Research topics:

His work focuses primarily on the body and its transformations, exploring social issues ranging from stigmatized bodies (particularly obesity and bariatric surgery) to bodies that deviate from the norm (through the study of ascetic discipline in bodybuilding). More recently, his research has expanded to include the accessibility of outdoor recreation for people with disabilities (examples: all-terrain wheelchairs, handiski). He is also developing expertise in field research and alternative writing in the social sciences, which he coordinates within the "In Situ" collection published by Effigi: https://santesih.edu.umontpellier.fr/collection-in-situ/.

Keywords:

Accessibility, sports and recreation, body image, disability.

ORCID: 0000-0001-8151-3809

IdHAL: eric-perera

IdRef: 149554613

ResearchGate: Eric_Perera

ROBIN APPEAL

HDR MCU

Email:robin.recours@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Research professor – Qualified to supervise research (Associate Professor with HDR) in Sports Science, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Research topics:
  • Popular culture: Sports, Music, Video games
  • Adolescence
  • Imaginary
Keywords:

Culture, Adolescence, Sports.

Main productions:
Articles:
  • Fiteni, T., Lassalle, G., & Recours, R. (2021). Alcohol consumption among young soccer players (aged 14–19): impacts of age, gender, and skill level. Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 5(1), 1–16.
  • Lassalle, G., Recours, R., & Griffet, J. (2018). Role of Family Members in Sport Motivation, Involvement and Expertise of Track and Field Athletes in France. Journal of Comparative Family Studies.
  • Riffaud, T., Recours, R., & Gibout, C. (2015). Sports and Street Arts: Being Urbanites Differently. Leisure and Society / Society and Leisure, 39(1), 1-13.
  • Recours, R., Aussaguel, F., & Trujillo, N. (2009). Metal Music and Mental Health in France. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 33 (3), 473-488.
Book chapters:
  • Recours, R. (2015). Myopia and Presbyopia in the Sports Business, in Lapeyronie & Roussel: Territorial Management & Marketing of Sports. Dardilly: Les Éditions de Bionnay, pp. 62–71.
  • Recours, R. (2013). "You can fly. You belong to the sky." The Dream of Flight as Motivation in Winter Sports, in Monneyron F. (ed.): Sport and the Imagination. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée.
Teaching topics:
  • Anthropology of the body and sport
  • Communication
REMI RICHARD

MCU-HDR

Email: remi.richard@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

After defending his doctoral thesis in 2013 on the sporting experience of the body in situations of disability, Rémi Richard was recruited in 2015 to the UFR STAPS (Faculty of Sports Science) at the University of Montpellier. He is responsible for the PESAP Master's 2 program in "Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity."

Research topics:
  • Sociology of disability
  • Gender sociology
  • Disability and technology

Publications:

ORCID:0000-0002-6170-367X

ResearchGate:Remi-Richard

Teaching topics:
  • General Sociology
  • Sociology of disability, APS, gender
  • Research methodology
Other responsibilities:
  • Review expert:
    • Physical Adapted Activity Quarterly
    • International Review for the Sociology of Sport
    • Research & Education
    • STAPS
LAURENT SOLINI

Status: Associate Professor

Specialty: Sociology

Telephone (business):

Email:laurent.solini@umontpellier.fr

Role and mission

In October 2012, Laurent Solini defended his doctoral thesis in sociology on the experiences of adolescents incarcerated in juvenile detention centers. In September 2013, he was recruited as a lecturer at the University of Montpellier and joined the Santesih laboratory, where he mainly teaches on the Master's program in "Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity" (PESAP) and in sociology at the Bachelor's level. 

Scientific and administrative responsibilities

From 2018 to 2020 – Director of research for "From one care institution to another. An exploratory study of the institutional socialization of minors in the justice system," funded by the Law and Justice Research Mission.

From 2014 to 2016 – Director of research for "Fabriquer la prison. Pour une étude des 'spatialités' au sein de cinq prisons belges et françaises" (Building prisons: A study of "spatialities" within five Belgian and French prisons), funded by the Mission de Recherche Droit et Justice (Law and Justice Research Mission).

Since 2020 – Head of Adapted Physical Activity and Health at the UFR STAPS in Montpellier

Since 2015 – Head of Sociology for Bachelor's degrees at the UFR STAPS in Montpellier

Since 2014 – Head of the Master 1 program in Prevention, Health Education, and Physical Activity at the UFR STAPS in Montpellier

From 2016 to 2018 – Member of the Scientific Council of the UFR STAPS (Faculty of Sports Science) in Montpellier

Research topics

Prison incarceration: individual and collective experiences in detention

Criminal justice and prison policies

Prison architecture

Journey of minors in the custody of the courts

Sociology of juvenile delinquency and youth in working-class neighborhoods

Main publications

Solini L., 2022, "Libérable." The everyday expression of release from prison for minors,French Ethnology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 199-213.

Solini L., Yeghicheyan J., Mennesson C. (eds.), 2022,Les déplacés. Portraits de parcours de jeunes sous main de justice(The Displaced: Portraits of Young People in the Hands of Justice), Nîmes, Champ Social, "Questions de société" (Social Issues)

Solini L., Yeghicheyan J., Ferez S. (eds.), 2019,Prisons. Uses and Appropriations of Prison Spaces, Paris, Éditions de la Sorbonne, "Locus Solus"

Solini L., 2017,Serving one's sentence at the Lavaur Juvenile Detention Center, Nîmes, Champ Social, "Social Issues" (was the subject of a Senate hearing in the working group on "Reintegration of incarcerated minors" on May 16, 2018)

Solini L., Basson J.-C., 2017, "Leaving the cell / staying in the cell. A sociology of the paradoxical experiences of detention in juvenile prisons,"Agora débats /Jeunesses, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 67-79.

Jaspart A., Solini L., 2016, "Promenade." From the study of a minor neighborhood through its courtyard,Champ Pénal/Penal field,vol. 13, [http://champpenal.revues.org/9431]

Solini L., Scheer D., Yeghicheyan J., 2016, "A window open to the outside world"? Ecology of two prison spaces,Sociology, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 225-242, [https://sociologie.revues.org/2851]

Solini L., Basson J.-C., 2012, "Forced hyperactivity: a method of managing incarcerated minors,"inBodin R. (ed.),Les métamorphoses du contrôle social, Paris, La dispute, "Mouvements de société," pp. 167-177.

Solini L., Neyrand G., Basson J.-C., 2011, "Gender overcoding in juvenile detention centers. Socialization in progress,"Deviance and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 195-215 (mentioned in issue 232 of the journal Sciences Humaines, December 2011)

Teaching topics

Confinement in mental institutions and prisons

Production of norms and mechanisms of power

Sociology of education and socialization

Sociology of the working class

Research methods in social sciences

Seconded researcher

Sylvain FEREZ

HDR MCU

Specialization: Sociology, social history
Tel (professional): +33 (0)4 11 75 90 88
E-mail: sylvain.ferez(at)umontpellier.fr

Role and mission:

Sylvain Ferez has been director of the SANTESIH laboratory since 2015 and deputy director of the scientific department of education at the University of Montpellier since 2017. At SANTESIH, he has been leading two research programs for the past ten years, focusing on the socio-historical issues surrounding sports for people with disabilities and the impact of HIV-positive status on access to physical and sports activities. As part of these programs, he also directs several comparative studies between mainland France and Guadeloupe.

Research topics:

• HIV experience, relationship with the body, and access to physical and sporting activities for people living with HIV;
• Disability, health, community and collective action;
• Gender, sexuality, and discrimination in physical and sporting activities;

Keywords:

Physical and sports activities, health, disability, HIV, gender, sexuality.

Main productions:
 – Works and project management:

• L. Solini, J. Yeghicheyan, S. Ferez (2019). Prisons. Uses and appropriations of prison spaces. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, Coll. Locus Solus.
• S. Ferez (2016). The Critical Corporation. Physical management and sporting mobilization of marginalized groups. Paris: L’Harmattan, Coll. Mouvements des savoirs.
• S. Ferez & S. Ruffié (2015). The Body of Shame. Sociohistory of HIV/AIDS Care in Guadeloupe. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Coll. Epistémologie du corps.
• S. Ruffié & S. Ferez (2013). Body, Sport, Disabilities (1): The Institutionalization of Disabled Sports (1954-2008). Paris: Téraèdre, Coll. Passage aux actes.
• S. Ferez & J. Thomas (2012). HIV & Sport: A Body Under Medical Constraint. Paris: Téraèdre, Coll. Passage aux actes.
• S. Ferez (2008). The Homosexual Body at Stake. Sociology of Gay and Lesbian Sport. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Coll. Epistemology of the Body.
• S. Ferez (2007). The Destabilized Body. The Work of Claude Pujade-Renaud. Paris: L’Harmattan, Coll. The Body in Question.
• A., Elling & S. Ferez (2007). Fitnesscentra als vluchtige gemeenschappen. Nieuwegein: Arko Sports Media.
• S. Ferez (2005). Lies and Truths of Bodies in Motion. The Work of Claude Pujade-Renaud. Paris: L’Harmattan, Coll. Spaces and Times of Sport.

 – Main articles published in recent years:

•    S. Ferez, Y. Moralès, C. Erard (2019, in press). Naissance d’une approche critique du sport et du corps. Le rôle de Michel Bernard (1927-2015) dans le « moment 68 » de l’éducation physique. STAPS.
•    R. Richard, A. Marcellini, A. S. Pappous, H. Joncheray, S. Ferez (2019). Construire et assurer l’héritage des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques. Pour une inclusion sportive durable des personnes vivant des situations de handicap. Movement & Sport Sciences/Science & Motricité, Published online : 27 Septembre 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1051/sm/2019031].
•    Y. Moralès, Y. Travaillot, S. Ferez (2019). Le GREC (1968-1976), une contestation « par corps » de la formation des enseignants d’éducation physique et sportive. Sciences Sociales et Sport, 13, 57-84.
•    A. Bergamaschi, F. D’Arripe-Longueville, L. Liora Gray, S. Colson, C. Goujard, S. Ferez, I. Rouanet, J. Durant, E. Rosenthal, C. Pradier, M. Duracinsky, L. Schuft (2019). Perceived HIV-related physical fatigue, sociodemographic characteristics and physical activity: a cross-sectional study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 28(11-12), 2147-2156.
•    L. Schuft, E. Duval, J. Thomas, S. Ferez (2018). « To be or not to be sick and tired ». Managing the visibility of HIV and HIV-related fatigue. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 22(4), 317-336.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, S. Héas (2018). Recognizing geographic and cultural alterity through sport? Institutionalizing the Arctic Games (1967-2004). Diagoras: International Academic Journal on Olympic Studies, 2, 11-34. [http://diagorasjournal.com/index.php/diagoras/article/view/5] •    S. Ferez & E. Perera (2018). “To those who say that I am ill, I invite them to come and train with me.” Becoming a bodybuilder in the face of HIV. STAPS, 119, 95-116.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, S. Héas (2018). Sports and « Minorities »: Negotiating the Olympic Model. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 12(2), 177-193.
•    D. Issanchou, S. Ferez, E. de Léséleuc (2018). Technology at the service of natural performance: cross analysis of the Oscar Pistorius and Caster Semenya cases. Sport in Society, 21(4), 689-704.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, D. Issanchou, J. Cornaton (2018). The manager, the doctor and the technician. Political recognition and institutionalization of sport for the physically disabled in France (1968-1973). Sport in Society, 21(4), 622–634.
•    J. Cornaton, A. Schweizer, S. Ferez, N. Bancel (2018). The divisive origins of sports for physically disabled people in Switzerland (1956-1968). Sport in Society, 21(4), 591-609.
•    M. Perez, S. Ferez, S. Héas (2017). L’infection au VIH à l’ère de la maladie chronique : Les avatars du retour des refoulés de la mort et de la sexualité. SociologieS. Mis en ligne le 13 novembre 2017 [http://sociologies.revues.org/6371].
•    M. Perez & S. Ferez (2017). Sport et VIH-sida : de l’exclusion des séropositifs à l’accompagnement des « malades ». Sciences de la société, 101, 92-111.
•    S. Ferez & L. Solini (2017). Sports et politiques publiques. De la réciproque des relations ?. Sciences Sociales et Sport, 10, 13-19.
•    S. Ferez, S. Ruffié, N. Bancel (2016). From Sport as an instrument in Rehabilitation to the adoption of Competitive Sport: Genesis of a Delegatee Sports Federation in France for those with Physical Disabilities (1954-1972). Sport History Review, 47(2), 146-171.
•    A. Marcellini, E. Perera, A. Rodhain, S. Ferez (2016). Rapport au corps et engagement dans les activités physiques chez les personnes touchées par l’obésité. Comment penser les « histoires de corps » individuelles dans une « société obésogène » ?. Santé Publique, HS(S1). 117-125.
•    E. Duval, S. Ferez, J. Thomas, L. Schuft (2016). « Devenir » malade chronique par l’activité physique : le rôle des associations VIH. Santé Publique, HS(S1). 89-100.
•    G. Villoing, S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, S. (2016). Care en milieu postcolonial : émancipation et revendication identitaire des personnes handicapées en Guadeloupe. ALTER, European Journal of Disability Research, 10, 54-66.
•    S. Ferez, J. Thomas, S. Ruffié (2015). De l’auto-organisation des mutilés de guerre à la structuration d’une Fédération sportive pour handicapés physiques : la spécificité de la France (1954-1972). European Studies in Sports History, 8, 121-148.
•    S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, E. Lantz (2014). From the Institutionalization of “all disabilities” to Comprehensive Sports Integration: The Enrolment of France in the Paralympic Movement (1954-2012). The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(17), 2245-2265.
•    S. Ferez, E. Duval, S. Héas, P. Fougeyrollas (2014). Continuer à s’engager dans des loisirs après avoir été infecté au VIH : entre quête de normalité et prescription sociale ?. Loisir & Société/Leisure and Society, 37(2), 205-223.
•    S. Ruffié, S. Ferez, E. Lantz (2014). From the Institutionalization of “all disabilities” to Comprehensive Sports Integration: The Enrolment of France in the Paralympic Movement (1954-2012). The International Journal of the History of Sport, 31(17), 2245-2265.
•    J. Thomas, E. Duval, S. Ferez (2014). La perception de l’activité physique comme mode de prise de charge du VIH : effets de la visibilité du corps sur les stratégies de gestion d’une  maladie chronique. Movement & Sport Sciences/Science & Motricité, 84, 99-110.
•    S. Ferez (2012). From Women’s Exclusion to Gender Institution: A Brief History of the Sexual Categorization Process within Sport. The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 29, n° 2, 272-285.

Teaching topics:

• Sociology and history of sport
• Sociology and anthropology of health and disability
• Research methods in social sciences