Steve Hagimont

Maître de conférences

Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin

FR

Biografia

Maître de Conférence in contemporary history, Steve Hagimont works on an environmental history of tourism, particularly in the European mountains, from the end of the XVIIIth Century until today. He asks political, social, imaginary processes that condition the tourist commodification of the environment, with a special atttention to thermal springs, snow (and the winter sports), landscapes, rock walls (for the climbers) or climate.

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Spas

In the eighteenth century, natural mineral springs spurred the emergence of tourism and played a strategic role on both sides of the Atlantic. Practices, travelers and development models circulated and changed depending on the place. Medical advances caused trajectories to diverge in the twentieth century.