La nature en bas à droite
Abstract
In the declining rural areas of Thiérache axonaise (France), working-class populations situated in the bottom-right of the social space share a moral ecology centered on autonomy (knowledge of nature, local environmental rules and practices of débrouilles rurales) in contrast to dominant ecologies they perceive as dispossessing. Based on an ethnographic study of the associative networks in two neighboring villages, the article shows that the moral ecology reproduces local dominations, notably between cultural and economic fractions of the rural working class, and according to local belonging. Finally, the research reveals that the moral ecology is mainly linked to conservative politicization, which may resonate implicitly with some everyday drivers of the far-right voting (criticism of welfarism, spatial dispossession, and rejection of cultural elitism).
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BibTeX
@article{vigour2026nature,
title = {{La nature en bas à droite}},
author = {Mathieu Vigour},
journal = {VertigO},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.4000/1717v},
url = {https://doi.org/10.4000/1717v},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - La nature en bas à droite
AU - Mathieu Vigour
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
JO - VertigO
DO - 10.4000/1717v
UR - https://doi.org/10.4000/1717v
AB - In the declining rural areas of Thiérache axonaise (France), working-class populations situated in the bottom-right of the social space share a moral ecology centered on autonomy (knowledge of nature, local environmental rules and practices of débrouilles rurales) in contrast to dominant ecologies they perceive as dispossessing. Based on an ethnographic study of the associative networks in two neighboring villages, the article shows that the moral ecology reproduces local dominations, notably between cultural and economic fractions of the rural working class, and according to local belonging. Finally, the research reveals that the moral ecology is mainly linked to conservative politicization, which may resonate implicitly with some everyday drivers of the far-right voting (criticism of welfarism, spatial dispossession, and rejection of cultural elitism).
SN - 1492-8442
ER -