Author Presentation

Editors

François Allard-Huver

François Allard-Huver is an Associate Professor in strategic and digital communication at Université Catholique de l'Ouest, Angers (UCO). His work focuses on environmental and health controversies surrounding food and pesticides. He is particularly interested in the question of "affairs" in the media and the public sphere. He also works on risks, sustainable development and organizations, with a particular focus on the CSR communication and public relations strategies of various players in the public sphere (institutions, civil society, lobbies, industry). He regularly participates in symposia and conferences on the relationship between sustainable development, risks, controversy, food and communication.

A member of the management committee of the Communication, environnement, science et société (CESS) study and research group of the Société française des sciences de l'information et de la communication1, he is also the scientific director of the Académie des controverses et de la communication sensible (ACCS)2.

Nataly Botero

Nataly Botero is an Associate Professor in information and communication sciences at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas and a researcher at Carism, France. As a discourse analyst and semiotician, her research focuses on the mediatization of ecological issues in France, both in terms of the formal features of these discourses (romanticism, use of metaphors) and public issues (programmed obsolescence, air pollution, pesticides). She has also worked on digital practices related to health and healthcare (rare dermatological conditions, continuation of pregnancy and neonatal palliative care). Her most recent publications are Influenceurs et influenceuses santé3 and Pollution atmosphérique à la une : visibilité médiatique d'un problème environnemental4.

Hélène Ledouble

Hélène Ledouble is an Associate Professor in applied linguistics at the Université de Toulon, France, and a researcher at the Babel laboratory. She works on popular science publications dealing with environmental issues, and is particularly interested in the field of agroecology. Her most recent publications are dedicated to the media coverage of natural plant protection mechanisms (biocontrol, biological control and biopesticides) in the French and English daily press5.

Authors

Estera Badau

Estera Badau is an Associate Professor in information and communication sciences at the CIMEOS laboratory at the Université de Bourgogne (Communications, media coverage, organizations, knowledge), France. Since completing her doctorate, her research has focused on the links between health and food. After her CIFRE thesis on the links between antibiotic resistance and food, she joined the CIMEOS laboratory, where she is currently leading a research project on thyroid diseases. Her most recent publications are Médiatisation des liens entre l'usage alimentaire du sel et la santé dans le quotidien Le Monde6 and L'alimentation à l'épreuve du risque et de la controverse7.

Carole Barthélémy

Carole Barthélémy is a sociologist at Aix-Marseille Université (Population Environment Development Laboratory). She is involved in environmental sociology, working on environmental conflicts and mobilization and on pollution in urban and rural areas. Since 2020, she has coordinated the SHS-pesticides network with Eve-Bureau Point.

José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez

José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez is a professor of the history of science at the University of Valencia and a member of the Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero (Spain). His research focuses on the history of forensic medicine and toxic products in France and Spain in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Entre el fiscal y el verdugo8, a biography of Matthieu Orfila (1787-1853), a renowned Spanish toxicologist. His latest book is Tóxicos: Pasado y Presente9. His current research project focuses on the social and cultural history of pesticides in 20th-century Spain10.

Antoine Blanchard

Antoine Blanchard holds a degree in agricultural engineering and a master's degree in the social studies of science and technology. His personal and professional career has taken several directions. His first focus is on digital transformations in the academic and research field: he has been working on these issues at the University of Bordeaux, France, since 2014, with a break between 2020 and 2023 within the Datactivist cooperative society. His second focus is a personal and associative commitment to science-society issues; after co-founding and chairing the Café des sciences community of web popularizers, he joined the board of directors of the Traces association. Last but not least, he holds an interest in environmental issues, particularly in relation to agriculture. He is a freelance researcher on these topics, drawing on approaches from information and communication sciences, digital humanities, and social studies of science and technology.

Eve Bureau-Point

Eve Bureau-Point is an anthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Centre Norbert Elias, Marseille). She conducts research in France and Cambodia on the social life of pesticides (production, market, regulation, uses, waste and residue management). At various stages of her career, she has studied the social construction of environmental health problems. Since 2020, she has coordinated the SHS-pesticides network with Carole Barthélémy.

Louis Galey

Louis Galey is a lecturer in ergonomics at the Université Paris Nanterre, France and a member of the Travail, ergonomie, orientation et organisations (TE2O) team within the Laboratoire parisien de psychologie sociale (LAPPS). He took part in the ARC-CMR project as a member of the EPICENE (Epidemiology of Cancers and Environmental Exposure) team (INSERM, Université de Bordeaux). His doctoral thesis focused on the development of a method for "understanding nanoparticle exposure situations by integrating work activity into the measurement process" in order to build prevention. His postdoctorate at the Centre de recherche sur le travail et le développement (CRTD, CNAM) focused on the activities of social partners in the context of digital transformations.

Alain Garrigou

Alain Garrigou is a professor of ergonomics in INSERM's EPICENE team, and the vice-president in charge of quality of life and health at work at the Université de Bordeaux. His doctoral thesis, supported in 1992 at the CNAM, focused on worker participation in the design of the Figaro printing works. He carries on the legacy of ergonomics pioneers such as Alain Wisner, Catherine Teiger and Antoine Laville, both conceptually and methodologically, as well as the political role of ergonomics research in responding to the social and technological challenges put forward by studies and its changes. For over ten years, he has contributed to the development of ergotoxicology, a transdisciplinary approach integrating ergonomics, public health, toxicology, anthropology and law, with the aim of contributing to the prevention of exposure to substances which can cause cancer.

Fabienne Goutille

Fabienne Goutille is a researcher-speaker in HSS, attached to INRAE's ETTIS (Environment, Territories in Transition, Infrastructures and Societies) research unit. She took part in the ARC-CMR project as a member of the EPICENE team at INSERM (Université de Bordeaux, France). Her doctoral thesis in ergonomics deals with the construction of pesticide risk prevention, and addresses the issue of how farmers' concerns can be taken into account in occupational health policies through extended research communities. The aim of her current work is to support individuals who are working and to make visible and address what challenges them by contributing to the development of personal and collective agency, particularly through the proposal of methods for shared analysis of work or exposures based on popular metrology and developmental ergotoxicology.

Annie Martin

Annie Martin holds a doctorate in private law and is a research fellow at the CNRS Societies, Stakeholders and Governments in Europe. She has a background in private international law and international trade law. Her publications focus on economic law and space law. More recently, her research has focused on conflicts of interest in the field of pharmaceuticals, European pesticide regulation, and the dissemination of standards between international organizations in the chemical sector. She is the author of several book chapters, including "Managing conflicts of interests at the European Medicines Agency. Success or weakness of the soft law tools?"11 and "The limits to access to information on risks concerning pesticides"12.

Clémence Rambaud

Clémence Rambaud, a labor lawyer, took part in the ARC-CMR project in 2015 as...