Anne-Sophie SAYEUX

Anne-Sophie Sayeux is a teacher-researcher in anthropology at the Institut des Sciences du Sport Santé de Paris (I3SP - Université Paris Cité) and the UCA (Université Clermont Auvergne).

A social and cultural anthropologist, Anne-Sophie Sayeux is involved in research into the body, sensations and nature. Beginning her studies of surfing in the Basque Country in the late 1990s, she laid the foundations for what might constitute a surfing identity and culture. In recent years, her work has focused on handi-surfing (with the Association Nationale Handi Surf), with a view to questioning notions of well-being experienced through the body, and more broadly of overall health, particularly in eco-therapies, and blue spaces more specifically. 

She coordinates the CORTO program - Corps et Thérapeutiques Océaniques - in partnership with AP-HP Hôpital Marin d'Hendaye(This work has received support under the program " Investissement d'Avenir " launched by the French Government and implemented by ANR, with the reference " ANR-18-IdEx-0001 " as part of its program " Emergence). 

Between 2003 and 2006, she worked in the corporate world as part of her thesis under a CIFFRE agreement with Décathlon International at Water Sport Hendaye - Tribord Glisse (Olaian). 

Inscribed in an anthropology of the near, her various past, present and future fields, such as surfing, street arts, electronic music and disability, enable her to explore the different ways in which we feel the world, and the many ways in which we cobble together identities that lead to a certain well-being. 

Expertise: Surf - identity - culture - gender - meaning - body - disability - nature - well-being - blue therapy - ecotherapy.