My research is articulated around three main areas, related to the sociology of development, environmental studies and/or property rights.
1/ Sociology of the Green Transition and Leftist Politics. This line of research focuses on the impact of the Green Transition (and the associated generalized electrification) on social inequality. I notably analyzed the contrast between the Yellow Vest and Gezi movements’ relation to the environmental question. In my current book project (under contract with Bristol University Press), I also analyse the rise of the degrowth movement in France, both from an STS and a political sociology perspective, and how it attempts to reconcile progressive and environmental ideals.
2/ Sociology of Natural Resource Management and Rural Property Regimes. My research concerns the relation between land property regimes and inequality of access to natural resources, particularly arable land and water. In Burkina Faso, I have studied the situation of legal dualism in rural land ownership, and its consequences on the distribution of access to both arable land and forest land, which are both different forms of commons. As part of the H2020 Ponderful project, I also analyzed the impact of land ownership on periurban and rural ponds’ ecosystems in Turkey and select European countries. I am currently developing a line of research in the Ravenate on the role of land reclamation and water administration in the spatial distribution of floods.
3/ Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights. This secondary research line on the intellectual commons concerns the role of intellectual property rights in the working of the global economy, particularly on development in the Global South.
