At the age of “smart cities”, new uses of automobile are appearing. Nowadays, a car can be rented for a few hours, shared for the duration of a road trip or exchanged between neighbors. From a product that is owned,…
With sociologists from several research centers, in Lyons and in Paris, we carried out two ethnographical studies on homecare (see references below). Actually, it would be more accurate to say that these studies address disability and care in a reciprocal…
The Public policies analysis Thesis Award was awarded to Benjamin Lemoine by the French Association of Political science on July 10, 2013, during the association’s 12th annual Congress, at a ceremony organized at the National Assembly. The Thesis Prize is…
Interview of Guillaume Yon Your PhD thesis ‘EDF and the construction of national economy’ is primarily based on the exploitation of the archives of Electricité of France (EDF). How did you come to making these archives the main source…
Last spring, I was invited in Weimar by the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, affiliated to Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), within the framework of a residential program for German and foreign professors. During my three-month stay, besides exchanges with the…
Research Workshop at Mines ParisTech on September 12-13, 2013 The Center for Sociology of Innovation together with the research center Spiral from the University of Liège organizes a workshop, funded by DIM IS2-IT (Innovations, Sciences, Technologies, Societies) from Ile-de-France region,…
Antoine Hennion: An intellectual journey within the CSI revisited SociologieS, the journal of the International Association of French Language Sociologists, has recently published an article where Antoine Hennion retraces his intellectual journey, and in particular his shift from a sociology…
I will surely remember this event. My research interests include the study of the governance and the mise en débat of new forms of biology, and in recent years part of my work has focused on the analysis of the…
Interview of Vololona Rabeharisoa Vololona Rabeharisoa is a member of the Reflection group with patient organizations (Groupe de réflexion avec les associations de malades – GRAM) of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm). She offers an…
Interview of David Pontille Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), David Pontille joined the research team of the CSI several months ago. His work addresses various writing devices from a Science and Technology Studies perspective. David is…
