Fanny Hugues is a sociology PhD. She recently submitted a thesis entitled « Débrouilles rurales. Les modestes économes au prisme de l’ethnographie ethnocomptable de leurs espaces domestiques » (“Rural resourcefulness. Looking at the modest thrifty through an ethno-accounting of their domestic spaces”) to the Centre for the Study of Social Movements at France’s School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).