Guest edited by Jérôme Denis, Daniel Florentin and David Pontille, the thematic collection “Maintenance & Its Knowledges”, published in April 2024 in ESTS – Engaging Science, Technology & Society, highlights the epistemic virtues of maintenance by examining a still underestimated and unexplored dimension: the forms of knowledge associated with maintenance activities. […]
April 30, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Charlotte Brives, CNRS Research Fellow, Centre Émile Durkheim, Bordeaux II University, to discuss her book “Face à l’antibiorésistance. Une écologie politique des microbes”. Introduction to the discussion by Allyson Pallisser.
March 29, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Klaudia Prodani (Department of Science, Technology and Policy Studies, University of Twente, The Netherlands) and Mathilde Salin (CIRED, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, France). In recent years, attempts to take biodiversity into account in economic and financial calculations have intensified. We will explore the issues, challenges and limits of this economic and financial translation of biodiversity, through a combination of practical approaches and critical analysis of models.
The CSI is pleased to announce that Béatrice Cointe, CNRS researcher at i3 and the CSI, has been awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal 2024.
Each year, the CNRS rewards the men and women who have contributed the most to its influence and to the advancement of research. The bronze medal rewards the first work of researchers who are specialists in their field. This distinction represents an encouragement from CNRS to pursue research that is well under way and is already fruitful.
Béatrice Cointe joined the Interdisciplinary Innovation Institute (i3) as a member of the CSI in 2019. She is also a professor at the She is also a professor at the Centre de formation sur […]
March 26, 2024. The CSI Guests Seminar welcomes Lucie Gerber, historian of science, CNRS research fellow (SAGE, University of Strasbourg) and associate researcher at the University of Lausanne (FADO, Institut des humanités en médecine) to discuss her book “Le laboratoire des esprits animaux. Modéliser le trouble mental à l’ère de la psychopharmacologie”.
22 mars 2024. Soutenances “Analyse de controverses environnementales” du MS IGE. L’ISIGE (Institut Supérieur d’Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement) et le CSI (Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation) proposent aux étudiants du MS EEDD parcours Ingénierie et Gestion de l’Environnement, un exercice pédagogique original centré autour de l’analyse de controverses « sur le terrain ». Les étudiants présentent les résultats de leurs travaux menés depuis octobre avec l’appui des chercheurs du CSI.
21-22 March, 2024. Although building renovation policy is widely recognized as an important factor in the fight against climate change, the modalities of its deployment divide the actors involved, give rise to new entities, and provoke unexpected effects and controversy, both in the design of the instruments and in their implementation.
Technical and commercial innovation continue to play an important role in this field, though other challenges have become more pressing, notably: the overall effectiveness of energy renovation initiatives (implementation of “complete renovations” as opposed to “single-action work”), the need to enhance the skills and coordination of the multitude of small craft businesses involved in these projects, and the ability to support households in defining and managing complex services. The renovation sector is not a single market, it rather provides, as a result of the way in which renovation policies are deployed, a ground for multiple market arrangements.
The objective of these study days is to address these issues through the lens of market recomposition. The aim is to encourage encounters and exchanges between social science research currently being carried out on the topic of renovation from a variety of approaches: through the market, organizations, work, public policies, space, consumption, etc.
March 1, 2024. The seminar “Economic expertise and environmental actions” welcomes Magdalena Kuchler, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Bård Lahn, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, and Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway. This session explores the entanglements of forecasting, planning, and economic calculation around underground resources, whether exploited or yet-to-be exploited. This session is organized in collaboration with the Programme Ciblé “Anticip” of the PEPR Sous-sol Bien Commun (Underground Common Good).
Title of the thesis: Studying care and monitoring objects in the context of ageing at home. Under the supervision of Cornelia Hummel (IRS, Université de Genève) and Madeleine Akrich (CSI, Mines Paris – PSL). My research interests focus on the…
A book by Liliana Doganova pubished by Zone Books
A pioneering exploration of the defining traits and contradictions of our relationship to the future through the lens of discounting.
Forest fires, droughts, and rising sea levels beg a nagging question: have we lost our capacity to act on the future? Liliana Doganova’s book sheds new light on this anxious query. It argues that our relationship to the future has been trapped in the gears of a device called discounting. While its incidence remains little known, discounting has long been entrenched in market and policy practices, shaping the ways firms and governments look to the future and make decisions accordingly. Thus, a sociological account of discounting formulas has become urgent.
