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    The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science
    with Benjamin Raimbault
    In Karen Kastenhofer & Susan Molyneux-Hodgson (eds.), Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences, Springer Verlag. pp. 85-106. 2021.
    This chapter conceptualizes the emergence of a techno-scientific field as a multiscalar and progressive establishment of a new set of epistemic and social rules. Drawing on science and technology studies and field theories, we design an original conceptual framework that allows us to formulate three propositions to characterize the process of emergence of a TSF. We use the emergence of synthetic biology as a ‘laboratory’ to test this framework. Each proposition refers to a determinant dimension …Read more
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    Disentrenching Experiment: The Construction of GM—Crop Field Trials As a Social Problem
    with Claire Marris and Christophe Bonneuil
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 33 (2): 201-229. 2008.
    The paper investigates how field experimentation of genetically modified crops became central to the French controversy on genetically modified organisms in recent years. Initially constructed in the 1980s as a cognitive endeavor to be preserved from lay interference, field trials of genetically modified crops were reconceived as “an intrusion in the social space,” which had to be negotiated with actors from that space. In order to analyze this transformation, the authors suggest that it is nece…Read more
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    Interactive Technology Assessment in the Real World: Dual Dynamics in an iTA Exercise on Genetically Modified Vines
    with Arie Rip and Claire Marris
    Science, Technology, and Human Values 33 (1): 77-100. 2008.
    Participatory Technology Assessment initiatives have usually been analyzed as if they existed in a social and political vacuum. This article analyzes the linkages that occur, in both directions, between the microcosm set up by a pTA exercise and the real world outside. This dual-dynamics perspective leads to a new way of understanding the function and significance of pTA initiatives. Rather than viewing them as a means to create the ideal conditions for real public debate, they are viewed here a…Read more
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    La fabrique de l’expertise scientifique : contribution des STS
    Hermès: La Revue Cognition, communication, politique 64 (3). 2012.
    Cet article analyse la contribution des études des sciences et des techniques à la compréhension de la fabrique de l’expertise. L’originalité des STS tient à un postulat central : l’autonomie et la pureté de la science ne sont pas des propriétés intrinsèques de cette activité mais le résultat d’un travail de démarcation inscrit dans les pratiques des acteurs et dans les dispositifs institutionnels. Partant, les STS sont particulièrement bien positionnées pour analyser l’expertise comme « technol…Read more