Justine Pribetich is a lecturer in the department of human and social sciences at AgroSup Dijon and at CESAER–INRA (Centre for Economics and Sociology Applied to Agriculture and Rural Spaces). Her past research includes studies of the conditions governing the emergence and construction of urban sociology in France, while her current work is devoted to periurbanisation (in France) and the consequences of urbanisation processes on populations’ ways of living (abroad).