In 2012, considering its development strategy for the electric car market, Renault turned the town of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines into a experimentation and demonstration laboratory, with the installation of electric cars as part of a car sharing system without fixed stations, called Twizy Way. In...

The article documents and analyzes patients organizations- and groups of activists’ “evidence-based activismâ€, and the compound dynamic interplay between politics of illness and politics of knowledge it entails in the four condition areas studied: ADHD, Alzheimer, rare diseases...

This article proposes the notion of ‘evidence-based activism’ to capture patients’ and health activists’ groups’ focus on knowledge production and knowledge mobilisation in the governance of health issues. It shows how these groups engage with, and articulate a variety of credentialed...

From a perspective informed by science and technology studies, the authors propose to establish a general diagnosis on the regulation of publication practices and suggest methods of analysis by drawing on old and recent cases that have been questionning research integrity.

Analyses the role of European patients’ organizations in the process of Europeanization of healthcare policies by exploring the types of organizations constituted by European patients’ organizations and the form of activism they develop.

Drawing on an ethnographic study of the installation and maintenance of Paris subway wayfinding system, this article attempts to discuss and specify previous claims that highlight stability and immutability as crucial aspects of material ordering processes. Though subway signs have been...

Do-it-yourself biology, as a promise of democratization of science, is analyzed in terms of its spatiality and materiality, and in terms of the various kinds of boundary-work it entails, in the perspective of a geography of science that focuses on emerging and less institutionalized sites of...

Sketches a pragmatist model of authority by studying the case of a consultant faced with the issue of establishing his authority in the actual context of a consulting assignment, and showing how the consultant invokes various “figures” that lend weight to his actions.

Highlights the emergence of a "hybrid collective model" of collaboration between patients and experts through a systematic study in the field of rare diseases in France and Portugal, with attention to the reflexive work carried out by patients' organizations on the notion of rareness.

Introduces the notions of ontological uncertainty and of problematization sites for the analysis of innovation and discusses political implications.