Presentation
The CESAER research unit of Dijon essentially groups economists and sociologists who focus on a common subject: rural territories.
The joint approach consists in deepening theoretical reflection in the light of different approaches in the fields of economics (microeconomics, spatial economics and economic geography, institutional theory, etc.) and sociology (ethnography, economic sociology, political sociology, etc.), in order to provide answers to the following questions:
- How are social groups, households and businesses distributed over the territory and in rural spaces in particular?
- What specificities characterise these territories?
- What individual behaviours and what collective organisations can be identified in them?
- What policies are applicable to them?
Under the umbrella topic of rural territories, CESAER is organised according to three main areas of research:
- “Populations and lifestyles” covers research into the economic and social structure of the population, the mobility and logics of localisation of individuals, and into the production of rural living environments.
- “Enterprises and economic activities” covers issues relating to the localisation of activities in rural territories, to the analysis of firm behaviour and possible specificities linked to company localisation, and to forms of collective organisation liable to vary according to site;
- “Politicies and territories” focuses on the analysis of political power and public interventions, whether sectoral (agriculture, agribusiness, etc.) or territorial (regional development, rural development, etc.), and on the evaluation of policies.