Poste
Director of researchInstitution de rattachement
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés (LISIS)Pierre-Benoit Joly, economist and sociologist, is Director of research at the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) in France. He holds a degree in agronomy (1982), a PhD in economics (1987) and the “Habilitation à diriger les recherches” (1995). He is the Director of the IFRIS (French Institute for Studies of Research and Innovation in Society) and of Labex (Laboratory of Excellence) SITES.
Since 1996, his research activities are focused on the governance of collective risks, socio-technical controversies, the use of scientific advice in public decision making and the forms of public participation in scientific activities. He was Member of the expert group “Science and Governance” at the European Commission, he is Member of the Council of European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and of the French Comité de Prévention et de Précaution and he chairs the Scientific Council of the Programme on GMOs at the French Ministry for Ecology. He has published about one hundred articles (of which more than 50 in refereed journals), three books and he has coordinated five special issues of social sciences journals. He lectures at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at Sciences Po Paris.
Selection of works:
- « Les biotechnologies » La découverte (with C.Ducos) (1988).
- « Les artifices du vivant : stratégies d’innovation dans l’industrie des semences » (Avec C.Ducos) ECONOMICA, 1993.
- « Risques, crises et incertitudes : pour une analyse critique » Cahiers du GIS Risques Collectifs et Situations de Crise, n°3. Grenoble (Collectif) (2005).
- « Du risque à la menace – Penser la catastrophe » PUF (with D. Bourg et A. Kaufmann) (2013).
- « Sciences, Techniques et Sociétés» La Découverte (with C. Bonneuil) (2013).
Recent articles:
- Joly (2012). “Innovation « responsable » et développement durable – Produire la légitimité des OGM et de leur monde”. Futuribles, n°383 (mars 2012), pp.89-110
- Joly, P .B. (2010). “On the economics of technoscientific promises”, in Akrich; Barthe, Muniesa, Mustar, Débordements – Mélanges offerts à Michel Callon, Paris: Presse des Mines, pp.203-222
- Bonaccorsi, A., Calvert, J. and Joly, P.B. (2011). “From protecting texts to rotecting objects in biotechnology and software”, Economy and Society, 40 (4), 611-639
- Calvert, J., Joly, P.B. (2011). “How did the gene become a chemical compound? The ontology of the gene and the patenting of DNA”. Social Sciences Information, 50 (2), 1-21
- Joly, P. B., Kaufmann, A. (2008). “Lost in translation ? The need for “upstream engagement” with nanotechnology on trial.” Science as Culture 17(3) : 225-248. [Téléchargement->art51].
- Bonneuil, C., Joly, P.B., Marris, C. (2008). “Disentrenching experiment ? The construction of GM-crop field trials as a social problem in France.” Science, Technology and Human Values 33(2) : 201-229.
- Marris, C., Joly, P.B., Rip A. (2008). “Interactive Technology Assessment in the Real World : dual dynamics in an iTA exercise on genetically modified vines.” Science,Technology and Human Values 33(1) : 77-100.
- Joly, P. B. (2007). “Scientific expertise in the Agora Lessons from the French experience.” Journal of Risk Research 10(7) : 905-924.
- Gaudillière, J. P., Joly, P.B. (2006). “Appropriation et régulation des innovations biotechnologiques : pour une comparaison transatlantique.” Sociologie du Travail 48(3) : 330-349.
- Joly, P.B. ; Marris, C. (2003) « La participation contre la mobilisation ? : une analyse comparée du débat sur les OGM en France et au Royaume Uni », Revue Internationale de Politique Comparée, vol. 10(2), 2003, pp. 195-206.
- Joly, P.-B. ; Marris, C. ; Hermitte, M.-A. (2003) « A la recherche d‘une ‘démocratie technique’. Enseignements de la conférence citoyenne sur les OGM en France », Natures, Sciences et Sociétés, Vol. 11(1), 2003, pp. 3-15.
- Joly, P.B. (2001) « Les OGM entre la science et le public ? Quatre modèles pour la gouvernance de l’innovation et des risques », Economie Rurale, n°266, novembre-décembre 2001, pp. 11-29.
- Marris, C., Joly, P.B. (1999) “Between consensus and citizens : public participation in technological decision-making in France”. Science Studies 12(2) : 3-32.