Local power and the working classes in rural settings No 137, 2022/1 - pagesPages 3 to 5EditorialPages 9 to 25Thinking about the production of distance from politics, approached through analysis of relations between local power and the working classes in rural settingsBy Ivan Bruneau, Maeva Durand, Julian MischiPages 27 to 54“The bosses think for us”: Rural notability and the political exclusion of laborersBy Julian MischiPages 55 to 78A festival of one’s own: Residential migration, power struggles and the transformation of political sociability in a periurban villageBy Sally SchnapperPages 79 to 95“Everyone talked about ‘the families who run things’. Local political power and systems of domination in rural regions of the United States”By conducted by Ivan Bruneau, with Juliette RogersPages 97 to 124Town Meeting and the double absence of the working classes: Investment in municipal government and the hierarchization of engagements in a Vermont townBy Ivan BruneauPages 125 to 155The space of political distance: The territorial construction of the relationship to the state in rural areasBy Clara DevillePages 157 to 182Secondary intermediaries of “diversity”: Aspirations and attributions of an elected official of Portuguese descentBy Alexandre BarbetPages 183 to 207“Appeal to everyone of goodwill to organize settlement”: Relocalizing the migration issue and new mobilizations in rural settingsBy Morane ChavanonPages 211 to 233Confronted with the withdrawal of the State. The territorial value of political resources in mobilizations for public servicesBy Joseph Hivert, Alexis SpirePages 235 to 239Raphaël Challier, Simples militants. Comment les partis démobilisent les classes populaires (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2021). 367 pages.By Jonathan Michel
