Dobré Michelle : curriculum vitae

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Michelle Dobré is Maître de Conferences and the Director of the Sociology Department at the University of Caen, and Researcher at the LASMAS (Maurice Halbwachs Research Centre, CNRS, EHESS (Paris) University of Caen). She was previously in charge of the French part of Uncertainty and Insecurity European Project, and before, a manager of the « Observatoire » on « Society and Environmental Problems » (Oprese) at the French Institute for the Environment (Ifen).

Key words on research and teaching fields: cultural change, risk, environment, consumption, (voluntary simplicity), lifestyles, ordinary resistance, sociality and sociabilities, social practice.

1. Cultural Changes : Environmental and risk sociology (for fifteen years). She carried the main surveys on environmental practices in France (INSEE-PCV 1998, ISSP 2000, Observatoires etc.). Current Quantitative Surveys: practices and representations on forestry in France (National Office for Forestry, Research Directory) ; attitudes towards alternative energies (French Electricity Board, Research Group).

2. Lifestyles and consumption, sustainable consumption, voluntary simplicity, practices of everyday life. Current researches :

How the international bodies have been dealing with the topic of energy while recommending changes in lifestyles since between Rio (1992) and Johannesburg (2002) Earth Summits.

A book project « Que Sais-je » on « Environment and Consumption » (theoretical and empirical aspects)

Ordinary resistance (everyday life) : « time killing » practices (with Aldo Haesler)

3. Uncertainty, Vulnerability : as a consequence of the research on Uncertainty and Insecurity in Europe, Michelle continues to integrate the very rich empirical data from Focus groups in the conceptualisation of social and cultural changes. Forms of sociality and sociability are at the centre of this questionning together with S. Juan and A. Haesler.

Current research : participation at the Challenge program ; study of the Statistical National Board (INSEE) surveys on sociability.