摘要：This article describes our experience of presenting a scientifique paper at a symposium. The symposium was organised by the the Mouvement National de Lutte pour l’Environnement Drôme-Ardèche (National Movement for the Environnement in Drôme-Ardèche) and dealt with opposition to zoning projects going by the name of “Nimby”. Our article attemps to allow our readers to share the lessons we have drawn from this experience. Thus, while we will briefly review the the gist of our presentation at this symposium, it is not what we said that consitutes the main topic of this article but an account of audience reactions. We place these reactions in the context of the kind and nature of exchanges that took place during this symposium, as they provide insights into the localized problematics a “Nimby” : what is it made of and what does it do. In sum, we hope our reader can share what was so inspiring to us during these exchanges and profit from our reflections on what we learned about being sociologists in the midst of paradoxical modes of associational politics and informal forms of activism.
