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https://ifris.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2024/09/RepenserInfrastructures.pdf

The IFRIS Closing conference “Troubles in transitions” will take place

from 6 to 8 November 2024

at the amphithéâtre Buffon of the Université Paris Cité, 15 rue Hélène Brion 75013 Paris

https://conferenceifris.univ-gustave-eiffel.fr/

Rethinking Post-Disaster Recovery
Socio-Anthropological Perspectives on Repairing Environments.

Edited by Laura Centemeri, Sezin Topçu (IFRIS) et J.Peter Burgess

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called ‘recovery phase’ in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.

The volume advances thinking on disaster recovery that goes beyond institutional and managerial challenges, descriptions and analyses. It encourages socially, politically and ethically engaged questioning of what it means to recover after disaster. At the centre of this analysis, contributions examine the diversity of processes of repairing through which recovery can take place, and the varied meanings actors attribute to repair at different times and scales of such processes. It also analyses the multiple arenas (juridical, expert, political) in which actors struggle to make sense of the “what-ness” of a disaster and the paths for recovery. These struggles are interlinked with interest-based and power-based struggles which maintain structural inequality and exploitation, existing social hierarchies and established forms of marginality. The work uses case studies from all over the world, cutting-edge theoretical discussions and original empirical research to put critical and interpretative approaches in social sciences into dialogue, opening the venue for innovative approaches in the study of environmental disasters.

This book will be of much interest to students of disaster management, sociology, anthropology, law and philosophy.

Routledge

Publication of the collective work “Living in a Nuclear World. From Fukushima to Hiroshima” co-written par by Boudia ( CERMES3, IFRIS),  Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent and Kyoko Sato (Eds)

Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima

Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Soraya Boudia and Kyoko Sato (Eds)

Routledge, 2022

Introduction: “Shaping the Nuclear World”

Soraya Boudia, Kyoko Sato, Bernadette Bensaude Vincent:

Section 1: Violence and Order

1        Kyoko Sato: “What the Bomb has Done: Victim Relief, Knowledge, and Politics”

2     Joseph Masco: “Optics of Exposure”

3     John Krige: “Constructing world order: Mobilizing Tropes of Gender, Pathology and Race to Frame US Non-Proliferation Policy”

4     Mary Mitchell: “The Nuclear Charter: Law, Technology, and the Making of Strategic Trusteeship, 1942-1947”

Section 2: Pacifying through control and containment

5        Angela Creager and Maria Rentetzi: “Sharing the “Safe” Atom? The International Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Regulation through Standardization”

6     Nestor Herran: “From Military Surveillance to Citizen Counter-Expertise: Radioactivity Monitoring in a Nuclear World”

7     Maël Goumri: “Making the Accident Hypothetical: How Can One Deal with the Potential Nuclear Disaster?”

8     Tania Navarro: “Governing the Nuclear Waste Problem: Nature and Technology”

Section 3: Normalizing through denial and trivialization

9     Soraya Boudia: “Trivializing Life in Long-Term Contaminated Areas. The Nuclear Political Laboratory”

10   Hiroko Takahashi: “Continuing Nuclear Tests and Ending Tuna Inspections: Politics, Science, and the Lucky Dragon Incident in 1954”

11   Kate Brown: “The Dystopic Pieta: Chernobyl Survivors and Neo-Liberalism’s Lasting Judgments”

12   Harry Bernas: “Unfolding Time at Fukushima”

Section 4: Timescaping through Memory and Future Visions

13   Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent: “Framing a Nuclear Order of Time”

14   Ran Zwigenberg: “Nuclear Dreams and Capitalist Visions: The Peaceful Atom of Hiroshima”

15   Scott Knowles: “Slow Disaster and the Challenge of Nuclear Memory”

The Fukushima disaster invites us to look back and probe how nuclear technology has shaped the world we live in, and how we have come to live with it. Since the first nuclear detonation (Trinity test) and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all in 1945, nuclear technology has profoundly affected world history and geopolitics, as well as our daily life and natural world. It has always been an instrument for national security, a marker of national sovereignty, a site of technological innovation and a promise of energy abundance. It has also introduced permanent pollution and the age of the Anthropocene. This volume presents a new perspective on nuclear history and politics by focusing on four interconnected themes–violence and survival; control and containment; normalizing through denial and presumptions; memories and futures–and exploring their relationships and consequences. It proposes an original reflection on nuclear technology from a long-term, comparative and transnational perspective. It brings together contributions from researchers from different disciplines (anthropology, history, STS) and countries (US, France, Japan) on a variety of local, national and transnational subjects. Finally, this book offers an important and valuable insight into other global and Anthropocene challenges such as climate change.

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Living in a Nuclear World: From Fukushima to Hiroshima | Program in Science, Technology & Society (stanford.edu)

Les Presses des Mines are pleased to announce the publication of the book :
Reduced use of antibiotics, car-free cities, pesticide-free agriculture, low
energy consumption, meatless menus, etc.
This list, which can be extended at will, leads to a clear statement. The answers to the challenges
challenges facing our societies increasingly involve the reduction, or even the withdrawal, of certain
of certain substances, technologies or artefacts that are at the heart of our way of life and
production. Doing without, doing with less, have thus become horizons for innovation.
What are the processes at work? How are the mechanisms and properties of these innovations different from those
different from those known until now? How do these innovations
question the conceptual tools of the social sciences, especially in the field of science and
science and technology studies?
This collective work provides answers to these questions, based on theoretical reflections
This collective work provides answers to these questions, based on theoretical reflections and empirical work on sectors as varied as agriculture, food
agriculture, food, health, religion, energy, markets and digital technology. It opens up
new perspectives to enrich our understanding of innovation processes and the transformations of
transformations of contemporary
societies

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The next LISIS seminar will feature Franck Cochoy, professor of sociology at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaures and researcher at LISST-CNRS. The seminar will take place on 7/02/2022, from 2 to 4 pm.

The presentation is entitled “Making homemade masks at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic: lessons from a “flash practice””.

We are still hoping that health conditions will allow us to hold a face-to-face seminar in room 109 (presumably with a gauge), but are now considering a hybrid session
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[Seminar ] (De)Making industry-From workers to flow workers, transformations of industrial work II- 20/01/21 at 1pm
[CAK/ENS Seminar] “Climate Change: Science, Society, Politics” – 7/01/2022 at 2pm
[France Culture] – Environment: has nuclear power become our only salvation? – Sezin Topçu (IFRIS, CNRS, EHESS)
Call for applications – Eu-SPRI winter school 2017
International Colloquium ” Interdisciplinarity in policy studies ” – September 15th/16th, 2016 – University Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée
[For information] [CEPED] Job offer: Coordination of the research program: climate migration and health systems in Haiti and Bangladesh
Announcement of the Symposium “Nature as a Standard” in Bordeaux, October 18-19, 2018
“The exorbitant price of certain treatments threatens the universality of our health model” – Article reprinting the work of Catherine Bourgain and Pierre-André Juven
The 2021 call for IFRIS postdoctoral projects is open!

The eighth session of the seminar “(de)making industry” will be held on February 7, 2022 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm at the Bâtiment EHESS-Condorcet, Salle 25-A, 2 cours des humanités 93300 Aubervilliers.
Industry and Digital (4/5) – Union movement and ecological critique of digital industries in Silicon Valley, Christophe Lécuyer, (SGFI, Sorbonne University).

Seminar description:

The proliferation of technologies – especially information technologies – has often been heralded as the realizing power that would definitively tip contemporary societies into a post-industrial era: transformations of labor (end of the working class and slow death of wage labor in Western countries), centrality of innovation, rise of an economy of services and immaterial goods, individualization of needs and goods.

However, rather than an exit from an industrial paradigm, some sociologists propose to speak of hyperindustrialization to characterize the mutations of contemporary societies (Veltz 2017, Musso 2018). Starting from the observation that industry is not declining but, on the contrary, thriving and transforming, authors seek to disenclave industry as an object and category of analysis and to break the linearity implicit in post-industrial analyses (Touraine 1967, Rifkin 2000, Moulier-Boutang 2007).

This seminar proposes to study the mutations of the forms of industry, through three main questions: which territories are produced by the displacement and reconfiguration of industrial activities? How does the integration of information technologies redefine the boundaries of working-class labor? What, in these reconfigurations, resists the processes of industrialization?

Program pdf version

“With less than three months to go before the presidential elections, it is crucial to have a very clear awareness of the real impact of social networks on our democracy. While we must take seriously what is being played out in digital public spaces, the opinion expressed on the web, legitimized primarily by traditional media and devoid of representativeness, cannot by itself predict the outcome of the election.”