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Science, Technology, & Human Values | 2015

Epistemic Commitments Making Relevant Science in Biodiversity Studies

Céline Granjou; Isabelle Arpin

We contribute to the exploration of diversity in interdisciplinary science by elaborating the notion of epistemic commitments to address researchers’ different views of knowledge that matters and how these views are embedded in research practices and networks. Based on previous science and technology studies and science-policy literature, we define epistemic commitments as reflexive commitments to regimes of relevant research. Drawing on an in-depth enquiry in the case of biodiversity studies in France, we describe four regimes of research, each of them bringing together certain disciplinary approaches and technologies, certain scenarios about environmental changes (from species loss to an explosion of ecological engineering possibilities) and certain contributions to decision making and management. We distinguish between an environmentalist regime, a management-oriented regime, a function-based regime, and an ecoengineering regime. We give insights into how researchers’ commitments to these regimes are shaped, stabilized, and maintained over time, suggesting the coevolution of research practices, practical contributions, and environmental scenarios. We emphasize pluralism rather than hegemony of a type of knowledge over the others. Our results show that environmental research’s diversity does not result only from the complexity of reality itself but is also embedded in various views of scientific advancement, future scenarios, and useful contributions to environmental governance.


Ecology and Society | 2016

Institutional entrepreneurship and techniques of inclusiveness in the creation of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Isabelle Arpin; Marc Barbier; Guillaume Ollivier; Céline Granjou

This article contributes to understanding the conditions of social-ecological change by focusing on the agency of individuals in the pathways to institutionalization. Drawing on the case of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), it addresses institutional entrepreneurship in an emerging environmental science-policy institution (ESPI) at a global scale. Drawing on ethnographic observations, semistructured interviews, and document analysis, we propose a detailed chronology of the genesis of the IPBES before focusing on the final phase of the negotiations toward the creation of the institution. We analyze the techniques and skills deployed by the chairman during the conference to handle the tensions at play both to prevent participants from deserting the negotiations arena and to prevent a lack of inclusiveness from discrediting the future institution. We stress that creating a new global environmental institution requires the situated exercise of an art of “having everybody on board” through techniques of inclusiveness that we characterize. Our results emphazise the major challenge of handling the fragmentation and plasticity of the groups of interest involved in the institutionalization process, thus adding to the theory of transformative agency of institutional entrepreneurs. Although inclusiveness might remain partly unattainable, such techniques of inclusiveness appear to be a major condition of the legitimacy and success of the institutionalization of a new global ESPI. Our results also add to the literature on boundary making within ESPIs by emphasizing the multiplicity and plasticity of the groups actually at stake.


Science in Context | 2015

The right time for the job? Insights into practices of time in contemporary field sciences.

Isabelle Arpin; Céline Granjou

ARGUMENT Temporal issues appear to be crucial to the relationship between life scientists and their field sites and to the making of science in the field. We elaborate on the notion of practices of time to describe the ways life scientists cope with multiple and potentially conflicting temporal aspects that influence how they become engaged and remain engaged in a field-site, such as pleasure, long-term security, scientific productivity, and timeliness. With this notion, we seek to bring enhanced visibility and coherence to the extensive but rather scattered and limited treatments of temporal practices in field sciences that already exist.


Ecology and Society | 2016

Everybody on board? New insights into Boundary Organizations from the construction process of the IPBES

Isabelle Arpin; Marc Barbier; Guillaume Ollivier; Céline Granjou


Études rurales | 2015

Inventaires naturalistes et rééducation de l'attention. Le cas des jardiniers de Grenoble

Isabelle Arpin; Coralie Mounet; David Geoffroy


Science, Technology, & Human Values | 2015

Epistemic commitments. Making relevant science

Céline Granjou; Isabelle Arpin


L'information géographique | 2018

De la piste animale aux lignes de désir urbaines. Une approche géoichnologique de la trace

Laurent Gagnol; Coralie Mounet; Isabelle Arpin


Archive | 2017

Expertise scientifique collective sur les aspects sociologiques, culturels et ethnologiques de la présence du loup en France

Isabelle Arpin; Richard Dumez; Alix Hubert; Marine Legrand; Nicolas Lescureux; Vanessa Manceron; Baptiste Morizot; Coralie Mounet


Archive | 2015

Des promesses scientifiques aux engagements épistémiques. Le cas de la nanomédecine et des sciences de la biodiversité

Céline Granjou; Séverine Louvel; Isabelle Arpin


Etudes rurales | 2015

Inventaires naturalistes et rééducation de l'attention

Isabelle Arpin; Coralie Mounet; David Geoffroy

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Coralie Mounet

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Guillaume Ollivier

Institut national de la recherche agronomique

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Marc Barbier

Institut national de la recherche agronomique

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Nicolas Lescureux

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Vanessa Manceron

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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