Organizers

Benoît Coquard and Ivan Bruneau, supported by the research centers CESAER (INRAE, Dijon) and Triangle (Lyon)

Program

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

It will also be possible to attend Tuesday’s proceedings by videoconference.
Here is the Zoom link

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• 10:00 : Arrival and welcome of attendees

• 10:30 : Introduction by Ivan Bruneau (associate professor of Political Science at Université Lyon 2, member of Triangle) and Benoît Coquard (researcher in Sociology at CESAER, INRAE, Dijon)

• 10:45-11:30 : Jennifer Sherman (Professor of Sociology at Washington State University) : “Rural poverty and inequality : Processes, mechanisms, and discourses”

• 11:30-12:15 : Discussion by Marie Plassart (associate professor of Anglophone Studies at Université Lyon 2, member of Triangle) and Nicolas Renahy (researcher in Sociology at CESAER, INRAE, Dijon).

• 12:15-14:00 : Lunch

• 14:00-14:45 : Linda Lobao (Professor of Rural Sociology at Ohio State University) : “Spatial inequality, state and market processes, and the missing middle (subnational) scale in sociology”

• 14:45-15:30 : Discussion by Alexandre Dafflon (Postdoctoral researcher, CRAPUL-IEP,
  University of Lausanne) and Raphaël Challier (researcher in Sociology, member of CRESPPA, Paris)

• 15:30-15:45 : Break

• 15:45-16:30 : Ivan Bruneau and Benoît Coquard : “The sociology of rural areas in France : From research focused on agriculture to localized analysis of social class”

• 16:30-17:15 : Discussion

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Wednesday, September 7, 2022

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• 10:00-12:00 : Workshop 1 : Conducting research in and on rural areas : Methodological approaches and field sites

• 12:00-13:30 : Lunch

• 13:30-15:00 : Workshop 2 : The social structures and labor markets of rural areas in the US and France

• 15:00-15:15 : Break

• 15:15-16:45 : Workshop 3 : Social class, power distribution, and attitudes towards social and political institutions in rural areas