This paper is interested in sustainable energy initiatives in French rural areas. It follows up the UK debate about ‘localism’. UK policy localism has been cast as neoliberal, framing communities as competent and competitive actors, morally responsible and accountable for their destiny.

Le reporting social et environnemental est devenu en une décennie un instrument majeur et hybride de gouvernement du développement durable, via la publication de données et d'indicateurs devenus des points de passage obligé pour les grandes entreprises. La Global Reporting Initiative est en...

Provides original sociological research on the development of consumer credit scoring in the United States and its links to subprime mortgage finance.

Presents a case study on the Arizona Stock Exchange, with an emphasis on how exchange automation altered the definition of the market.

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...

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.

Examines the changing roles of science exhibitions from places of 'cold' science, where secure, closed and fixed knowledge is communicated, to places that increasingly engage with 'hot', controversial research and open debates.

Comments on the potentials of the notion of "experimentation" as a vehicule for the renewal of the theoretical repertoire of political sociology.

Presents a case study on public participation in controversies on nanotechnologies in France, and proposes an analytical typology.