Christelle Gramaglia
Christelle Gramaglia is a sociology researcher at the UMR G-EAU of INRAE in Montpellier. Her current work focuses on controversies surrounding pollution (plastics, etc.) and the restoration of ecosystems (industrial wasteland and rivers). Her research focuses on experiments in participatory and citizen science.
In her presentation, she will use Bruno Latour’s concept of attachment to sketch out a figure, that of the ‘attached inhabitant’ of polluted industrial sites, who is not in denial about environmental and health risks, nor is he a calculator maximising his utility, but rather a person caught up in more than human relationships that force her/him – and in so doing encourage her/him – to stay where she/he is by dealing with uncertain or even dangerous environments.
This figure will be used in particular to analyse two forms of care for polluted areas: (1) an intimate mode involving personal maintenance practices, and (2) a public mode involving experiments in participatory science, all of which contribute in their own way to restoring some of the lost habitability of these areas.
Speakers in Session 4: Subsistance: Making last, maintaining and slowing down