Guest April - 8-2010

A few weeks ago, we announced a series of conferences in the Relation of OF by the Mediation Assistance Animal . Hubert MONTAGNER opened this cycle last February on the theme of children and animals. For the second group of DU in Clermont-Ferrand, it is the turn of Christophe Blanchard, a sociologist and master-dog, he is also the author of several publications on the relationship of people and their dogs wandering. At this conference, we will present its work:

Excluded young people accompanied by dogs when the animal becomes a mediator between the researcher and her audience

Monday, April 12, 2010 at 20h at the Faculty of Medicine of Clermont-Ferrand - Amphi-C 3.

There is no reservation for the conference in Clermont-Ferrand. Admission is free; the organization is provided by the association ARDRA it is possible to support even a small contribution.

Christophe Blanchard presents a brief summary of today's speech on Monday. Sandie.

Christophe Blanchard

Dreadlocks, military fatigues and beer can in hand, we meet every day in the streets of our cities. Those that are commonly called the "Punks dog," referring to their look carefully studied and packs of dogs that circulate in their wake, have become in just a few years the symbol of a fragile youth who searches the alternating rhythm of a life of wandering the refuge against a society they feel excluded. In recent years, roaming the ostensible owners of a new kind of challenge does not lack all political, social and health of our cities, while causing some very hostile reactions in the population.

In France, this phenomenon is particularly evident, particularly around stations (since October 2009, I started well for the social division of SNCF, a study of six major French stations (Paris Gare du Nord, Gare de Paris east, Paris St Lazare, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Tours), to account for the magnitude of this problem. places catalysts marginalities the most diverse.

Interested in better understanding the extent of the difficulties caused by the possession of a dog once in the street, I wanted to get closer to the owners of the land area during my investigation through the Hexagon. Public often very suspicious vis-à-vis persons not belonging to their world, I decided to rely on my knowledge of the animal to facilitate exchanges and interactions with them. Dog training, and I tried to make an original synthesis between sociology and cynotechnie, which allows me to continue to refine my thinking and make some tracks institutional actors to better understand this new type of exclusion, clichés and fantasies that usually results.

Christopher Blanchard - Laboratory Economic History, Social and Technology (LHEST), University of Evry.

For more information:

Contact Christophe Blanchard chrbblanchard@yahoo.fr

Contact ARDRA (Research and Development Association of Rehabilitation in Auvergne) and OF RAMA. Mail: durama63@gmail.com

DU:

University Diploma - Relationship Help with Mediation Animal and Some clarifications in response to questions about the OF RAMA

Echoes of RAMA'S # 1: Meet Eric Gobert and llamas

The echoes of THE RAMA # 2: lecture series on the helping relationship by the Mediation Animal

The echoes of THE RAMA # 3: cultural perception of the animal in traditional Chinese thought

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