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Jean-Baptiste Comby is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Nantes and a researcher at the Nantes Center for Sociology. His work focuses on the emergence of a depoliticized mainstream environmentalism that is directed against the working classes. He is the author of *Écolos, mais pas trop… Les classes sociales face à l’enjeu environnemental* (2024).
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The working class and the environmental issue
A realist relationship shaped by diverse status dynamics
In Sociétés contemporaines (2021/4 No 124)
Disgust with excess and the production of a dominant ecology
In Politix (2023/4 No 144)
When the Environment Fosters the Media
Conditions and Effects of the Institutionalization of a Journalistic Specialty
In Réseaux (2009/5 No 157-158)
“To Show Foresight”: A Variously Appropriated Social Norm
In Sociologie (2012/3 Vol. 3)
An equalizing ethos
On smoothing and screening the ecological critique by opening it to capitalism. And vice-versa
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2022/1 No 241)
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Disgust with excess and the production of a dominant ecology
In Politix (2023/4 No 144)
The working class and the environmental issue
A realist relationship shaped by diverse status dynamics
In Sociétés contemporaines (2021/4 No 124)
An equalizing ethos
On smoothing and screening the ecological critique by opening it to capitalism. And vice-versa
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2022/1 No 241)
Introduction
Politics of categorization of the social world
- By Jean-Baptiste Comby
- and Julie Pagis
In Politiques de communication (2018/1 No 10)
Controversy and the Disqualification of “Climate Sceptics” in the French Media
In Hermès, La Revue (2015/3 No 73)
The deceptive politicization of the mediatization of climate issues after 2007
In Le Temps des médias (2015/2 No 25)
“To Show Foresight”: A Variously Appropriated Social Norm
In Sociologie (2012/3 Vol. 3)
Differentiated Take-up of Online Information in the Top Social Classes
- By Jean-Baptiste Comby,
- Valérie Devillard,
- Charlotte Dolez
- et al.
In Réseaux (2011/6 No 170)
How interpretative schemas of a public problem are socially rooted and used
Analysis of conversations about climate change
- By Jean-Baptiste Comby,
- Translated from French by Jasper Cooper
In Revue française de science politique (2011/3 Vol. 61)
The State Contribution to the Leading Definition of the Climate Problem
In Enjeux de l'info. et de la communication (2009/1 Volume 2009)