Publications by Alexandre André Robert Rigal

À rebours des institutions totales

L’article esquisse un continuum des institutions de la sobriété, des plus totales aux plus partielles. Il prolonge la théorie des institutions élaborée par Erving Goffman uniquement à partir des formes et des effets socialisateurs des institutions totales. ...

Consortium Erudit2024

On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

The article explores the relationship between individualism and group affiliation in the context of self-tracking technology. Prior research establishes that self-tracking fosters both self-focus and collective interactions. The article proposes that Durkh ...

2024

Cycling Interaction Rituals in the Conflict against the Car. From the Bike Subculture to the City Scale and Beyond

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Mobility scholars have long been interested in challenging the automobile's hegemony in the street, particularly by highlighting how to develop urban cycling. The article contributes to this task by explaining how one type of conflict between the bike and ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2023

Changing habits in the cycling subculture: the case of two bike workshops in France

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

How do habits change? Some mobility scholars describe habits as regularly evolving. Several psychologists, on the other hand, observe radical changes originating from disruptions in our environment. I show that these two perspectives can be integrated usin ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Planning for plurality of streets: a spheric approach to micromobilities

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Micromobilities have proliferated over recent years, enabled by technological advances. Together they present opportunities to flip urban mobility into a new system, beyond car dominance, towards inclusivity, diversity, and sustainability. We propose a the ...

ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

Les espaces de l'effort

Alexandre André Robert Rigal, Farzaneh Bahrami

Métis Presses2021

The Globalization of an Interaction Ritual Chain: “Clapping for Carers” During the Conflict Against COVID-19

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Sociologists have long been interested in the theoretical possibility of a universal ritual. Despite a growing number of indicators of world society and globalization, there have not been attempts to observe and analyze the international reach of particula ...

2021

Changer de vie par-delà la prise de conscience

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Le résultat de quarante-huit entretiens approfondis réalisés en 2015 est sans appel. Tous les individus interrogés évoquent spontanément le problème de la pollution auto- mobile et la menace du réchauffement climatique. Malgré cette prise de conscience, qu ...

Metis Presses2021

Individual changes in the bicycle community workshops, A typology from a new agent of socialization

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Social change is at the center of solutions to the problems of the environment. Yet social change is sometimes elusively described. Through empirical inquiries guided by socialization theories, the present article aims to identify different types of indivi ...

2020

Habitudes en mouvement, vers une vie sans voiture

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Aujourd’hui, en Europe plus qu’ailleurs, les habitudes de déplacement se transforment au rythme de la prise de conscience environnementale. Les réseaux de transports en commun se développent et les adeptes des mobilités douces se multiplient. Pourtant les ...

Métispresses2020