Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Université de Paris-cité, Sorbonne humanities
"I adopt a pragmatist approach, not imposing my own conception of ‘good’ and ‘desirable’ futures, I examine how actors in the field – people, experts, communities, institutions, law makers - attempt to define those and formulate a whole range of economic, legal, geo-political, financial arrangements to produce them. I undertake extensive ethnographic research, conduct in-depth interviews with policymakers, residents, practitioners, politicians, and concerned groups, and conduct thorough data analysis, including the use of archival sources and institutional documents. My fieldwork has taken me from the town that hosts the only operating geological repository for nuclear waste in the world—located deep inside the Salado Formation (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, Carlsbad, New Mexico, USA)—to robotic laboratories that are developing technologies for the clean-up of Europe’s most hazardous nuclear site (Sellafield, West Cumbria, UK), from the U.S. National Archives to stakeholder meetings at the EU Parliament (Brussels, Belgium), and from U.S. Congress (Washington D.C., USA) to the now-abandoned Yucca Mountain deep geological repository project (Nye County, Nevada, USA)."
Interview with Başak Saraç-Lesavre who joins Sciences Po and the CSO as assistant professor in environmental sociology and ecological transition. "I have always been intrigued by peoples’, communities’, experts’, and institutions’ ways to value what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘desirable’ relations between the present and future generations, between humans and more-than-humans, between the surface and the depths of the Earth, and between ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere’. I realized that nuclear waste, and long-lasting political, financial, material responsibilities associated with it, constitutes a perfect case to examine those relations. " https://lnkd.in/emb9HRVF #environnement #sociologie #SHS #transition Sciences Po Research
