Body ecology and Emersive leisure / edited by Bernard Andrieu, Jim Parry, Alessandro Porrovecchio and Olivier Sirost.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Central themes in body ecology / Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost -- Georges Hébert (1875-1957) : a naturalist's invention of body ecology / Pierre Philippe Meden -- The concept of "body schema" in Merleau-Ponty's account of embodied subjectivity / Jan Halák -- Body, flow and learning : from Feldenkrais to Csikszentmihalyi / Adjoa Domelevo -- Sport, health and academia : a reflexive approach to the disenchantment and the re-enchantment of the body / Alessandro Porrovecchio -- The naturalising process of technique : the antimony of nature and culture through the lens of Chinese practices / Alexandre Legendre and Stéphane Ibrahime -- Health, well-being and sport : some personal reflections / Andrew Bloodworth -- Ecological transition and recreative leisure in nature / Jean Corneloup, Pascal Mao and Philippe Bourdeau -- Naked surfing in Tambada, Brazil : an example of body ecology / Pétrucia da Nobrega, Bernard Andrieu and Olivier Sirost -- Body ecology and urban sports : Parkour as an interdisciplinary immersion in the city environment / Florian Lebreton and Bernard Andrieu -- Heidegger, sport and body ecology / Irena Martínková and Jim Parry -- The recosmologisation of the world : from Monte Verita to naturism / Olivier Sirost -- Body ecology and academic well-being : what sustainable health can be offered to adolescents through the practice of body art activities? / Gilles Lecocq -- Bodies in the wind : dance and nature on Redinha Beach, Natal, Brazil / Terezinha Petrucia da Nóbrega -- "No pain no gain" : the Puritan ethic in body-building / Eric Perera and Marie Gomez -- The emersion of syncope in freediving : moderation and immoderation / Mary Shirrer -- The emersion of sensation in slacklining / Lionel Chavaroche -- The emersion of involuntary gesture in the vertiginous circus arts / Bernard Andrieu and Haruka Okui.