Resumen de La politique à la caserne: Approche ethnographique des rapports à la politique en milieu pompier
Drawing on in-depth ethnographic data I collected as a firefighter (a specific kind of streetlevel bureaucrats) in the suburb of Paris during nine years, this article addresses classical questions of political science : are people interested in politics ? How can we understand their political attitudes and behavior ? Do we have relevant concepts in our culture as social scientist to understand it ? I try to show that we need to take social and professional context of everyday life into account to avoid global interpretations in terms of indifference, lack of knowledge and authoritarism (specifically for working classes). I propose various ways of describing the fabric of our civic life.
