Helene Joncheray
Biographic Data
| ID | 331809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helene Joncheray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helene |
| FAMILY NAME | Joncheray |
| SIGNATURE | JONCHERAY H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Cité |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7048-0658 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
De l’« être pro » au devenir professionnel: Variabilité des discours, des pratiques et des ressources au sein de l’élite athlétique française
L’objet de cet article est de s’intéresser à la pluralité des représentations associées au « professionnalisme » chez les athlètes d’élite ainsi qu’à la diversité des parcours et des configurations qui y mènent. En mobilisant la polysémie de ce terme, tant dans le langage indigène que dans le vocabulaire sociologique, il s’agit d’éclairer sous un jour nouveau la construction des carrières sportives de haut niveau. Pour ce faire, nous nous appuyon…
Du sport et du care: Les perceptions différenciées des activités de care des assistants et des guides paralympiques
Cet article propose, à partir d’une enquête par entretiens, de considérer les activités des assistants et des guides de sportifs paralympiques comme des activités de care. Il s’intéresse aux différences, à la fois objectives, perçues et mises en scène entre les activités de care des assistants et des guides. Les résultats montrent que les assistants et les guides perçoivent différemment leurs activités de care et que leurs perceptions tendent à c…
Evolution of the physical characteristics of the French women's rugby players: A 10-year longitudinal analysis by position and team
Introduction The study aimed to interpret the evolution of the physical performance of rugby sevens and rugby union French international players from 2009 to 2020. Methods 631 players from the French national teams were divided into three groups: forwards, backs and sevens. The performances evaluated were anthropometric characteristics, strength tests (1 RM bench press and 1 RM pull-up), aerobic capacity (YoYo IR1 test) and speed tests (10 m, 20 …
They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship
This article intends to analyze the links that Paralympic athletes and their staff members establish between the Paralympic athletes’ self-presentation as cyborgs or supercrips and their access to sponsors. Based on an interview survey of 15 Paralympic athletes and 42 members of their staffs, we will show that not all Paralympic athletes can be associated with inspirational cyborg or supercrip figures. Indeed, according to the Paralympic athletes…
Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball
The objective of this article was to describe the experiences of normalization of pain and injuries among elite adolescent basketball players and their staff. A total of 10 elite adolescent basketball players, ages 15–17 years and eight members of their staff, were interviewed. Results showed that (a) for both players and staff, being able to normalize pain is considered as a necessity and requires experience; injury is regarded as inevitable and…
Comparison of social representations of Neets in active young French adults and Neets themselves
Although diverse European policy initiatives have been developed to integrate young NEETs – “Not in Employment, Education or Training”, it is particularly relevant to question how NEETs are perceived by their counterparts who are actively engaged in society. For this reason, we aimed to examine the Social Representations (SRs) of NEETs in France, using the classic free evocation technique. French NEETs (n = 71) and matched controls (n = 66; peopl…
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports
The requirements of performance sport are becoming more and more time-consuming for athletes. Based on the work of Rosa, the article looks into the ability of athletes to reconcile their training project and the increasing requirements of practice at a high level. To address this issue, we interviewed 63 high-level French athletes who train at the French Institute of Sport. The results show that although the training project appears to be time-co…
I had a dream: It was to play the games”.Sports socialisation processes of French paralympic athletes
International audience
Inclusion through Sport: A Critical View on Paralympic Legacy from a Historical Perspective
Through its commitment to universalism, the inclusion of disabled people has become an increasingly prominent objective of the Paralympic Games. To achieve this, the organisers rely on the notion of legacy, which refers to the expected effects of major sporting events on host countries. This notion was initially founded on material aspects and then took an interest in certain intangible sides that were spotted within the organiser’s goals and stu…
Performance Factors and Strategies Favored by French Olympic Athletes
This article presents the performance factors identified by Olympic athletes and analyzes how they were prioritized and implemented during the 2012–2016 Olympiad. To address this issue, 28 semistructured interviews were conducted with French athletes who participated in the Olympic Games in 2016. The analysis shows that to achieve performance, only two factors were implemented by all the athletes: training and physical preparation. The other fact…
Let Go of Your Ball, This Is Not the NBA: The Influence of Hip-Hop Ball on Institutional Basketball Around Paris (France): Cultural Antagonisms and Difficult Cohabitation
The nature of the game of basketball, which is to score more hoops than the opposing team while respecting a set of rules, has often been questionned. Young players have been developing new ways to play and think basketball ever since the advent of the American hip-hop basketball ('hip-hop ball') culture in France in the noughties. However, this way of playing basketball is viewed negatively by club coaches, who are the guardians of institutional…
Le paradoxe du sport: Entre Injonctions De Santé Et Performance De Genre
L’article « Les centres de remise en forme « reserves aux femmes » : une injonction normative a la sante d’un nouveau genre ? » de Cindy Louchet et Oumaya Hidri Neys questionne l’impact de cette organisation sportive specifique sur les normes corporelles privilegiees par ses encadrants et clientes. Dans le cadre de ce commentaire, l'auteur propose, dans un premier temps, d’aborder la question des injonctions sociales de sante a travers la pratiqu…
The life of high-level athletes: The challenge of high performance against the time constraint
The conditions for high performance have changed considerably over the last few years. Athletes must spend more time training and competing, devote a lot of time to mental, physical and nutritional professionals and continue to respond to some constraints such as studying, spending time with their families, friends and quality of life. In this context and based on the work of Rosa, we wonder about the capacity of elite athletes to combine all the…
Disabled sportswomen and gender construction in powerchair football
Sports and physical activities are ideal fields to study gender construction. Much research aims at shedding light on these processes. Women involved in 'male' sports have been extensively studied, and mixed-sex activities have sometimes been used to support these studies, but research has rarely focused on populations of disabled athletes. Yet, the phenomenon of gender construction takes on a particular meaning in the context of disability, inso…
Des corps innovants
Identity socialization and construction within the French national rugby union women's team
The goal of this article is to present the output of a study on women who play rugby union at international level. This article aims to uncover the steps in their sport socialization - in rugby among others - and to understand how these women construct their identities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 players from the French national rugby union women's team. First, the results show that the players have varied sport and rugby soc…
Les processus d’engagement et de désengagement dans la pratique du rugby à XV. Effets de l’expérience rugbystique chez des joueurs adolescents
This article investigates the processes that allow teenagers to get involved in, and commit themselves to, rugby in the long term. Involvement in and disengagement from a sports activity depend upon various processes; the main hypothesis here is that the reasons for disengagement differ depending on how long the person has been playing rugby. One thousand four hundred and two (1402) teenagers currently affiliated with the French Rugby Federation …
Sport, Physical Danger, and Injury: The Experiences of Elite Women Athletes
Recently, feminist work on sport and gender has begun to understand male tolerance of physical risk and injury as a constituting process that may enhance a particular brand of masculinization. For some men, the cultural meanings of physical danger and living with injury resonate with larger ideological issues of gender legitimacy and power. But how may women's tolerance of the potential for injury in sport be explained using this approach? Based …
Sport, Physical Danger, and Injury: The Experiences of Elite Women Athletes
Recently, feminist work on sport and gender has begun to understand male tolerance of physical risk and injury as a constituting process that may enhance a particular brand of masculinization. For some men, the cultural meanings of physical danger and living with injury resonate with larger ideological issues of gender legitimacy and power. But how may women's tolerance of the potential for injury in sport be explained using this approach? Based …
The life of high-level athletes: The challenge of high performance against the time constraint
The conditions for high performance have changed considerably over the last few years. Athletes must spend more time training and competing, devote a lot of time to mental, physical and nutritional professionals and continue to respond to some constraints such as studying, spending time with their families, friends and quality of life. In this context and based on the work of Rosa, we wonder about the capacity of elite athletes to combine all the…
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports
The requirements of performance sport are becoming more and more time-consuming for athletes. Based on the work of Rosa, the article looks into the ability of athletes to reconcile their training project and the increasing requirements of practice at a high level. To address this issue, we interviewed 63 high-level French athletes who train at the French Institute of Sport. The results show that although the training project appears to be time-co…
Disabled sportswomen and gender construction in powerchair football
Sports and physical activities are ideal fields to study gender construction. Much research aims at shedding light on these processes. Women involved in 'male' sports have been extensively studied, and mixed-sex activities have sometimes been used to support these studies, but research has rarely focused on populations of disabled athletes. Yet, the phenomenon of gender construction takes on a particular meaning in the context of disability, inso…
Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball
The objective of this article was to describe the experiences of normalization of pain and injuries among elite adolescent basketball players and their staff. A total of 10 elite adolescent basketball players, ages 15–17 years and eight members of their staff, were interviewed. Results showed that (a) for both players and staff, being able to normalize pain is considered as a necessity and requires experience; injury is regarded as inevitable and…
Identity socialization and construction within the French national rugby union women's team
The goal of this article is to present the output of a study on women who play rugby union at international level. This article aims to uncover the steps in their sport socialization - in rugby among others - and to understand how these women construct their identities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 players from the French national rugby union women's team. First, the results show that the players have varied sport and rugby soc…
They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship
This article intends to analyze the links that Paralympic athletes and their staff members establish between the Paralympic athletes’ self-presentation as cyborgs or supercrips and their access to sponsors. Based on an interview survey of 15 Paralympic athletes and 42 members of their staffs, we will show that not all Paralympic athletes can be associated with inspirational cyborg or supercrip figures. Indeed, according to the Paralympic athletes…
Let Go of Your Ball, This Is Not the NBA: The Influence of Hip-Hop Ball on Institutional Basketball Around Paris (France): Cultural Antagonisms and Difficult Cohabitation
The nature of the game of basketball, which is to score more hoops than the opposing team while respecting a set of rules, has often been questionned. Young players have been developing new ways to play and think basketball ever since the advent of the American hip-hop basketball ('hip-hop ball') culture in France in the noughties. However, this way of playing basketball is viewed negatively by club coaches, who are the guardians of institutional…
Inclusion through Sport: A Critical View on Paralympic Legacy from a Historical Perspective
Through its commitment to universalism, the inclusion of disabled people has become an increasingly prominent objective of the Paralympic Games. To achieve this, the organisers rely on the notion of legacy, which refers to the expected effects of major sporting events on host countries. This notion was initially founded on material aspects and then took an interest in certain intangible sides that were spotted within the organiser’s goals and stu…
Performance Factors and Strategies Favored by French Olympic Athletes
This article presents the performance factors identified by Olympic athletes and analyzes how they were prioritized and implemented during the 2012–2016 Olympiad. To address this issue, 28 semistructured interviews were conducted with French athletes who participated in the Olympic Games in 2016. The analysis shows that to achieve performance, only two factors were implemented by all the athletes: training and physical preparation. The other fact…
Les processus d’engagement et de désengagement dans la pratique du rugby à XV. Effets de l’expérience rugbystique chez des joueurs adolescents
This article investigates the processes that allow teenagers to get involved in, and commit themselves to, rugby in the long term. Involvement in and disengagement from a sports activity depend upon various processes; the main hypothesis here is that the reasons for disengagement differ depending on how long the person has been playing rugby. One thousand four hundred and two (1402) teenagers currently affiliated with the French Rugby Federation …
Sport, Physical Danger, and Injury: The Experiences of Elite Women Athletes
Recently, feminist work on sport and gender has begun to understand male tolerance of physical risk and injury as a constituting process that may enhance a particular brand of masculinization. For some men, the cultural meanings of physical danger and living with injury resonate with larger ideological issues of gender legitimacy and power. But how may women's tolerance of the potential for injury in sport be explained using this approach? Based …
Les processus d’engagement et de désengagement dans la pratique du rugby à XV. Effets de l’expérience rugbystique chez des joueurs adolescents
This article investigates the processes that allow teenagers to get involved in, and commit themselves to, rugby in the long term. Involvement in and disengagement from a sports activity depend upon various processes; the main hypothesis here is that the reasons for disengagement differ depending on how long the person has been playing rugby. One thousand four hundred and two (1402) teenagers currently affiliated with the French Rugby Federation …
Des corps innovants
Identity socialization and construction within the French national rugby union women's team
The goal of this article is to present the output of a study on women who play rugby union at international level. This article aims to uncover the steps in their sport socialization - in rugby among others - and to understand how these women construct their identities. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 12 players from the French national rugby union women's team. First, the results show that the players have varied sport and rugby soc…
Disabled sportswomen and gender construction in powerchair football
Sports and physical activities are ideal fields to study gender construction. Much research aims at shedding light on these processes. Women involved in 'male' sports have been extensively studied, and mixed-sex activities have sometimes been used to support these studies, but research has rarely focused on populations of disabled athletes. Yet, the phenomenon of gender construction takes on a particular meaning in the context of disability, inso…
Le paradoxe du sport: Entre Injonctions De Santé Et Performance De Genre
L’article « Les centres de remise en forme « reserves aux femmes » : une injonction normative a la sante d’un nouveau genre ? » de Cindy Louchet et Oumaya Hidri Neys questionne l’impact de cette organisation sportive specifique sur les normes corporelles privilegiees par ses encadrants et clientes. Dans le cadre de ce commentaire, l'auteur propose, dans un premier temps, d’aborder la question des injonctions sociales de sante a travers la pratiqu…
The life of high-level athletes: The challenge of high performance against the time constraint
The conditions for high performance have changed considerably over the last few years. Athletes must spend more time training and competing, devote a lot of time to mental, physical and nutritional professionals and continue to respond to some constraints such as studying, spending time with their families, friends and quality of life. In this context and based on the work of Rosa, we wonder about the capacity of elite athletes to combine all the…
Let Go of Your Ball, This Is Not the NBA: The Influence of Hip-Hop Ball on Institutional Basketball Around Paris (France): Cultural Antagonisms and Difficult Cohabitation
The nature of the game of basketball, which is to score more hoops than the opposing team while respecting a set of rules, has often been questionned. Young players have been developing new ways to play and think basketball ever since the advent of the American hip-hop basketball ('hip-hop ball') culture in France in the noughties. However, this way of playing basketball is viewed negatively by club coaches, who are the guardians of institutional…
Inclusion through Sport: A Critical View on Paralympic Legacy from a Historical Perspective
Through its commitment to universalism, the inclusion of disabled people has become an increasingly prominent objective of the Paralympic Games. To achieve this, the organisers rely on the notion of legacy, which refers to the expected effects of major sporting events on host countries. This notion was initially founded on material aspects and then took an interest in certain intangible sides that were spotted within the organiser’s goals and stu…
Performance Factors and Strategies Favored by French Olympic Athletes
This article presents the performance factors identified by Olympic athletes and analyzes how they were prioritized and implemented during the 2012–2016 Olympiad. To address this issue, 28 semistructured interviews were conducted with French athletes who participated in the Olympic Games in 2016. The analysis shows that to achieve performance, only two factors were implemented by all the athletes: training and physical preparation. The other fact…
Comparison of social representations of Neets in active young French adults and Neets themselves
Although diverse European policy initiatives have been developed to integrate young NEETs – “Not in Employment, Education or Training”, it is particularly relevant to question how NEETs are perceived by their counterparts who are actively engaged in society. For this reason, we aimed to examine the Social Representations (SRs) of NEETs in France, using the classic free evocation technique. French NEETs (n = 71) and matched controls (n = 66; peopl…
The Educational Project in the Context of High-Performance Sports
The requirements of performance sport are becoming more and more time-consuming for athletes. Based on the work of Rosa, the article looks into the ability of athletes to reconcile their training project and the increasing requirements of practice at a high level. To address this issue, we interviewed 63 high-level French athletes who train at the French Institute of Sport. The results show that although the training project appears to be time-co…
I had a dream: It was to play the games”.Sports socialisation processes of French paralympic athletes
International audience
Experiences of Normalization of Pain and Injury in Elite Adolescent Basketball
The objective of this article was to describe the experiences of normalization of pain and injuries among elite adolescent basketball players and their staff. A total of 10 elite adolescent basketball players, ages 15–17 years and eight members of their staff, were interviewed. Results showed that (a) for both players and staff, being able to normalize pain is considered as a necessity and requires experience; injury is regarded as inevitable and…
Evolution of the physical characteristics of the French women's rugby players: A 10-year longitudinal analysis by position and team
Introduction The study aimed to interpret the evolution of the physical performance of rugby sevens and rugby union French international players from 2009 to 2020. Methods 631 players from the French national teams were divided into three groups: forwards, backs and sevens. The performances evaluated were anthropometric characteristics, strength tests (1 RM bench press and 1 RM pull-up), aerobic capacity (YoYo IR1 test) and speed tests (10 m, 20 …
They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship
This article intends to analyze the links that Paralympic athletes and their staff members establish between the Paralympic athletes’ self-presentation as cyborgs or supercrips and their access to sponsors. Based on an interview survey of 15 Paralympic athletes and 42 members of their staffs, we will show that not all Paralympic athletes can be associated with inspirational cyborg or supercrip figures. Indeed, according to the Paralympic athletes…
Du sport et du care: Les perceptions différenciées des activités de care des assistants et des guides paralympiques
Cet article propose, à partir d’une enquête par entretiens, de considérer les activités des assistants et des guides de sportifs paralympiques comme des activités de care. Il s’intéresse aux différences, à la fois objectives, perçues et mises en scène entre les activités de care des assistants et des guides. Les résultats montrent que les assistants et les guides perçoivent différemment leurs activités de care et que leurs perceptions tendent à c…
De l’« être pro » au devenir professionnel: Variabilité des discours, des pratiques et des ressources au sein de l’élite athlétique française
L’objet de cet article est de s’intéresser à la pluralité des représentations associées au « professionnalisme » chez les athlètes d’élite ainsi qu’à la diversité des parcours et des configurations qui y mènent. En mobilisant la polysémie de ce terme, tant dans le langage indigène que dans le vocabulaire sociologique, il s’agit d’éclairer sous un jour nouveau la construction des carrières sportives de haut niveau. Pour ce faire, nous nous appuyon…
Political science (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Physical therapy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Sport Psychology and Performance (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (7 works) · Athletes (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works)