Sociologists rarely interact with respondents after the interviews. This situation becomes proble... more Sociologists rarely interact with respondents after the interviews. This situation becomes problematic with the spread of Internet use and the evolution of academic research, which leads researchers to work with and for some of their interviewees. This text presents a concrete experience of continued exchanges following the interviews. It aims to show the value of such experiences, in different situations, without advocating the adoption of a new rule.
Despite the abundant literature on transformation of research and the affective dimension of rese... more Despite the abundant literature on transformation of research and the affective dimension of research practice, affective governing of research has not been documented to the same extent. To address this gap, we examine how scientific research can be affectively governed by research institutions. We focus on the case of ecosystem services science, an interdisciplinary field of research expected to lead to decisions capable of halting environmental degradation. Drawing on theoretical discussions bridging the concept of affect and the Foucauldian concept of government, we argue that affects can be mobilised as a technology of government in governing scientific practice. We identify three affective techniques used to govern ecosystem service research and discuss the limits of governing research through affects. Our analysis deepens the understanding of how academic work is transformed in the context of redefined relations between science and society.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2015
Using a field study on green space in the city of Grenoble, the authors show that the introductio... more Using a field study on green space in the city of Grenoble, the authors show that the introduction of naturalist inventories in the urban environment constitute a technology of education that participates in a change in “the system of perception.” Previously treated as resembling “nature morte” (“dead nature,” the French term for “still life” in art), these green spaces were progressively seen as ecosystems where biodiversity was burrowed, waiting to be discovered and preserved. This shift is based on a process of educating the attention of gardeners, which revealed a growing range of beings and a way of seeing in a new manner what they had been used to seeing differently. This evolution was also based on the constitution of new collectives – the establishment of links with external specialists, the designation of “referents” within the services maintaining the green spaces, the supply of equipment both textual (guides, charts, and identification cards) and technical (butterfly nets, boxes, etc.), along with the arrival of new species of animals and plants.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019
L'appel a projets annonce par le gouvernement le 9 mai ne suffira pas a couvrir l'ensembl... more L'appel a projets annonce par le gouvernement le 9 mai ne suffira pas a couvrir l'ensemble des problematiques liees a l'utilisation des pesticides, deplore un collectif de pres de 260 scientifiques, qui pronent une gestion plus ambitieuse « au nom du bien commun ».
Sociologists rarely interact with respondents after the interviews. This situation becomes proble... more Sociologists rarely interact with respondents after the interviews. This situation becomes problematic with the spread of Internet use and the evolution of academic research, which leads researchers to work with and for some of their interviewees. This text presents a concrete experience of continued exchanges following the interviews. It aims to show the value of such experiences, in different situations, without advocating the adoption of a new rule.
Despite the abundant literature on transformation of research and the affective dimension of rese... more Despite the abundant literature on transformation of research and the affective dimension of research practice, affective governing of research has not been documented to the same extent. To address this gap, we examine how scientific research can be affectively governed by research institutions. We focus on the case of ecosystem services science, an interdisciplinary field of research expected to lead to decisions capable of halting environmental degradation. Drawing on theoretical discussions bridging the concept of affect and the Foucauldian concept of government, we argue that affects can be mobilised as a technology of government in governing scientific practice. We identify three affective techniques used to govern ecosystem service research and discuss the limits of governing research through affects. Our analysis deepens the understanding of how academic work is transformed in the context of redefined relations between science and society.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2015
Using a field study on green space in the city of Grenoble, the authors show that the introductio... more Using a field study on green space in the city of Grenoble, the authors show that the introduction of naturalist inventories in the urban environment constitute a technology of education that participates in a change in “the system of perception.” Previously treated as resembling “nature morte” (“dead nature,” the French term for “still life” in art), these green spaces were progressively seen as ecosystems where biodiversity was burrowed, waiting to be discovered and preserved. This shift is based on a process of educating the attention of gardeners, which revealed a growing range of beings and a way of seeing in a new manner what they had been used to seeing differently. This evolution was also based on the constitution of new collectives – the establishment of links with external specialists, the designation of “referents” within the services maintaining the green spaces, the supply of equipment both textual (guides, charts, and identification cards) and technical (butterfly nets, boxes, etc.), along with the arrival of new species of animals and plants.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2019
L'appel a projets annonce par le gouvernement le 9 mai ne suffira pas a couvrir l'ensembl... more L'appel a projets annonce par le gouvernement le 9 mai ne suffira pas a couvrir l'ensemble des problematiques liees a l'utilisation des pesticides, deplore un collectif de pres de 260 scientifiques, qui pronent une gestion plus ambitieuse « au nom du bien commun ».
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