About
Sociologist, researcher at the Centre d'économie et de sociologie appliquées à l'agriculture et aux espaces ruraux (CESAER, INRAE-Institut Agro Dijon). His research focuses mainly on rural worlds, the evolution of the working class and relations of domination linked to ecology. He recently published Jusqu'au bout.
Most viewed articles
Introduction. Toward a sociology of class contempt
The economy of affects at the heart of domination
In Sociétés contemporaines (2020/3 No 119)
For a political sociology of rural worlds
- By Julian Mischi
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Politix (2008/3 No 83)
Fire, the tractor and the “fifty thieves”: The ecologization of communal forestry practices caught up in the decline of the working class
In Genèses (2025/2 N° 139)
The Power of the “Petty Bourgeoisie”
On the Reconditioning of Rural Elections
- By Ivan Bruneau
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2012/1 No 191-192)
Virilities: Beyond the Working Classes
- By Frédéric Rasera
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Travail, genre et sociétés (2013/1 No 29)
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Articles
Fire, the tractor and the “fifty thieves”: The ecologization of communal forestry practices caught up in the decline of the working class
In Genèses (2025/2 N° 139)
Introduction. Toward a sociology of class contempt
The economy of affects at the heart of domination
In Sociétés contemporaines (2020/3 No 119)
The Village in The Factory
Workers’ Trajectories and Distancing Oneself from the Hierarchy
In Sociétés contemporaines (2015/3 No 99-100)
Virilities: Beyond the Working Classes
- By Frédéric Rasera
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Travail, genre et sociétés (2013/1 No 29)
The Power of the “Petty Bourgeoisie”
On the Reconditioning of Rural Elections
- By Ivan Bruneau
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (2012/1 No 191-192)
“Problems don't stay where they Are, They come with you.”
Belonging to the Working Class and Precarious Migration
In Agora débats/jeunesses (2009/3 No 53)
A long line of employers cum mayors
The rise and decline of personalized domination (1850-1970)
In Politix (2008/3 No 83)
For a political sociology of rural worlds
- By Julian Mischi
- and Nicolas Renahy
In Politix (2008/3 No 83)
“That Is How You Catch Hatred”
A Son of a Rural Worker Testifies about His Years of Petty Delinquency
In Mouvements (2006/2 No 44)
A Factory Occupation: the Swan Song of a Rural Trade-Union Movement
In Ethnologie française (2005/4 Vol. 35)
Two Ages of Worker Emigration
Migration and Non-Migration in an Industrial Village
- By Nicolas Renahy,
- Cécile Détang-Dessendre,
- Séverine Gojard,
- et al.
In Population (2003/6 Vol. 58)
“Country of our Desires” . . . Ethnologists
- By Gilles Laferté
- and Nicolas Renahy
In L'Homme (2003/2 No 166)
The Ethnologist and the Social Use of Ethnology
- By Gilles Laferté
- and Nicolas Renahy
In L'Homme (2003/2 No 166)
Football and Territorial Representation: An Amateur Club in a Workers' Village
In Ethnologie française (2001/4 Vol. 31)