My research is based on empirical ethnographic surveys carried out in France and the United States; it develops three themes that address our relationship of inhabiting the world.

Contemporary social movements and ordinary relationships with politics. These investigations were first conducted on issues relating to poor housing and urbanity, controversies involving nature, and agriculture and the dynamics of farmer involvement. From a pragmatic sociology perspective, the aim is to understand the links between ordinary experience and forms of public commitment.
Back to the land. Observing the involvement of American farmers in post-September 11 peace movements and the reintegration, through agriculture, of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has enabled me to study the contribution of rural mobilizations to a social movement around care. I'm interested in how certain forms of investment in agricultural activity (such as care, therapy, social reintegration) and certain expectations of agriculture (attachment, personal fulfillment, sustainability, etc.) manifested in contemporary aspirations for a “return to the land” enable the expression of a renewed social critique.
Rural cultures, popular classes and counterculture. In connection with the theme of the return to the land, I study the way in which rurality, nature and ecology are thematized in the counterculture of the 1960s-1970s. I'm also interested in the culture of the rural working classes, particularly in the American South.

Research topics
- Back to the land
- Social movements
- Health / post-traumatic stress
- Culture, counter-culture, working classes
- Pragmatic sociology, Ethics of Care