Antoine Hardy’s postdoctoral research aims to understand how the consideration of the environmental impact of computer science research contributes to the redefinition of the field. He is thereby extending his Ph.D. research on the “greening” of scientific practices. This research project, funded by lnria, is co-supervised by Clément Marquet (Mines-PSL) and Sophie Quinton (Inria Grenoble).
Antoine’s work lies at the crossroads of the sociology of science, the sociology of the environment and the sociology of quantification. His research focuses in particular on the relationship between climate change, scientific work and scientific authority. In his doctoral thesis, which he defended in 2024, he studied the French scientific movements that are trying to change the way research is conducted by quantifying the greenhouse gas emissions of scientific activities. In 2024, he coordinated a Zilsel journal dossier on what is altering the circulation and production of knowledge in the context of environmental degradation. He also co-edited, with Laurène Le Cozanet, the book Les publics de la mise en nombre (Presses des Mines, 2025).
His teaching experience spans several higher education institutions (Sciences Po Paris, Université d’Évry – Université Paris-Saclay, Université de Nantes, École Polytechnique).
Publications
Book
Hardy, A. & Le Cozanet L. (Eds.). (2025). Les publics de la mise en nombre. Presses des Mines, coll. Sciences Sociales.
Editing of journal issues
Thomas Amossé, Antoine Hardy, Jean-Christophe Thalabard. Les nombres écologiques (I). Climat, gaz à effets de serre. Les nombres écologiques (II) (forthcoming). Statistique et Société [En ligne], 2025.
Thomas Amossé, Antoine Hardy et Jean-Christophe Thalabard, Les nombres écologiques. Ou ce que devient l’environnement mis en nombre. Introduction aux numéros 2025-2 et 2025-3. Ecological numbers. Or what happens to the environment when it is put into numbers. Statistique et société. doi.org/10.4000/15fcz
Articles
Antoine Hardy, Légitimer, produire : le travail pour rendre tangible les nombres du CO2e. Legitimizing and Producing: the Work of Making CO2e Numbers Tangible. Statistique et société. doi.org/10.4000/15fd
Hardy, A. (2024). Des sciences altérées. Zilsel, 14(1), 97-109. https://doi.org/10.3917/zil.014.0097
Hardy, A. (2024). « La lutte politique se joue souvent dans les détails », Entretien avec Michelle Murphy. Zilsel, 14(1), 111-127. https://doi.org/10.3917/zil.014.0111
Hardy, A. (2024). Decarbonizing research laboratories? The tensions associated with the commensurability of carbon and how it opens up the boundaries of responsibility attribution. Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 105, 179-198. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00211-2
Hardy, A. (2023). Ressaisir l’invisible : un terrain du CO2e. Zilsel, 13(2), 125-138. https://doi.org/10.3917/zil.013.0125
Hardy, A. & Noûs C. (2023). Quantifier la frugalité de la recherche ?. Socio, 17, 83-117. https://doi.org/10.4000/socio.14157
Hardy, A., Saint-Martin, A. & Diminescu, D. (2023). La frugalité contre l’extractivisme ?. Socio, 17, 9-31. https://doi.org/10.4000/socio.14132
Berné, O., Agier, L., Hardy, A., Lellouch, E., Aumont, O., Mariette, J. & Ben-Ari, T. (2022). The carbon footprint of scientific visibility. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac9b51
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