The authors are: Fabian Muniesa, Liliana Doganova, Horacio Ortiz, Álvaro Pina-Stranger, Florence Paterson, Alaric Bourgoin, Véra Ehrenstein, Pierre-André Juven, David Pontille, Başak Saraç-Lesavre and Guillaume Yon What does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as…
From 7 to 20 February 2016, the twelve students minoring in Public Affairs and Innovation (PAI) went to San Francisco as part of a study trip to participate in a collective investigation. In the frame of the CitEx project (City Experiment with urban mobility practices), involving a partnership with the Institute for Sustainable mobility (Renault-Nissan Alliance), the investigation explored the linkages between infrastructures, urban innovation…
Jérôme Denis arrived at the CSI in May. Part of his investigations concerns the – often-invisible – work that is being done at an earlier stage of the circulation and dissemination of data, in various areas (administrations, banks, city services…). Over the last few years, along with David Pontille, he has also developed a research interest around maintenance and repair activities.
He co-runs, with David Pontille and Didier Torny, Scriptopolis, a blog dedicated to the ordinary writing practices
There was a time, in the early 2000s, when defining oneself as an expert on the issues of Internet governance was met by the public with indifference if not perplexity. The word “Internet governance” seemed to refer to a strange…
My PhD work focuses on the controversial case of the nickel exploitation in the South of New Caledonia: the Goro-Nickel project. This controversy involves the formulation of environmental (local, but also international) claims and the emergence of new identity-based groups,…
At the age of “smart cities”, new uses of automobile are appearing. Nowadays, a car can be rented for a few hours, shared for the duration of a road trip or exchanged between neighbors. From a product that is owned,…
With sociologists from several research centers, in Lyons and in Paris, we carried out two ethnographical studies on homecare (see references below). Actually, it would be more accurate to say that these studies address disability and care in a reciprocal…
Last spring, I was invited in Weimar by the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, affiliated to Bauhaus-Universität Weimar), within the framework of a residential program for German and foreign professors. During my three-month stay, besides exchanges with the…
Research Workshop at Mines ParisTech on September 12-13, 2013 The Center for Sociology of Innovation together with the research center Spiral from the University of Liège organizes a workshop, funded by DIM IS2-IT (Innovations, Sciences, Technologies, Societies) from Ile-de-France region,…
I will surely remember this event. My research interests include the study of the governance and the mise en débat of new forms of biology, and in recent years part of my work has focused on the analysis of the…
