Brice Laurent

Biography

Brice Laurent is a senior researcher at the CSI and Director of the Social Sciences, Economy and Society Department of the French National Agency for Environmental, Food and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). His research interests focus on the relationship between science and democracy, in sites where innovation is promoted, regulated or contested. His books include Les politiques des nanotechnologies (ECLM, 2010), Democratic Experiments (MIT Press, 2017) and European Objects (MIT Press, 2022). His current work explores experimental forms of innovation, and includes research projects on the politics of subsurface resources. At ANSES, the department headed by Brice Laurent coordinates the agency’s social science expertise as well as activities focused on dialogue with society.

Publication(s)

2025
What makes minerals critical? Problematizing sovereignty in times of crisis DOI : 10.1016/j.exis.2025.101720
2025
Can democracy save children’s lives? Addressing the constitutional problem of expertise DOI : 10.1177/03063127241310461
2025
Scaling Up or Deep Scaling? Problematizing the Scalability Imperative in Technological Innovation DOI : 10.1177/01622439241259411
2025
Territorial frictions of digital innovation DOI : 10.4337/9781800886629.00008
2024
Latour and the Question of Politics: A Constitutional Reading DOI : 10.1177/02632764241275466
2024
Science and technology policy-making DOI : 10.4337/9781800377998.ch38
2024
Co-production DOI : 10.4337/9781800377998.ch01
2024
The territorialisation of industry in times of transition: ecosystems, infrastructures and hubs in the green hydrogen sector DOI : 10.1080/1523908X.2024.2324425
2023
INSTITUTIONS OF EXPERT JUDGMENT: THE PRODUCTION AND USE OF OBJECTIVITY IN PUBLIC EXPERTISE DOI : 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190848927.013.10
2022
The politics of scaling DOI : 10.1177/03063127211048945
2021
Ideology, engine or regime. Styles of critique and theories of innovation
2021
The engineering of promises: Revival of mining activities in France and the "responsible Mine" initiative; [L'ingénierie de la promesse: le renouveau minier français et la « mine responsable » ★] DOI : 10.1051/nss/2021046
2021
The Test Bed Island: Tech Business Experimentalism and Exception in Singapore DOI : 10.1080/09505431.2021.1888909
2021
Promise engineering: Investment and its conflicting anticipations in the French mining revival DOI : 10.1080/03085147.2021.1903772
2020
A European market for green certificates? The failed disentanglement of immaterial labels from themateriality of electricity DOI : 10.1007/978-981-15-1498-2_8
2020
Introduction labels in economic and political life: Studying labelling in contemporarymarkets DOI : 10.1007/978-981-15-1498-2_1
2020
Labelling the economy: Qualities and values in contemporary markets DOI : 10.1007/978-981-15-1498-2
2019
Situated expert judgment: QSAR models and transparency in the European regulation of chemicals DOI : 10.23987/sts.65249
2019
Stress-Testing Europe: Normalizing the Post-Fukushima Crisis DOI : 10.1007/s11024-018-9362-4
2019
Formuler l'action publique en termes de tests. les stress tests européens comme réponse aux crises financières et nucléaires DOI : 10.3917/crii.085.0063
2019
Carving out a domain for the market: boundary making in European environmental markets DOI : 10.1080/03085147.2019.1624071
2018
Towards a study of city experiments DOI : 10.4324/9781351182409
2017
The Politics of Governance: Nanotechnology and the Transformations of Science Policy DOI : 10.1002/9783527697724.ch20
2016
State experiments with public participation: French nanotechnology, Congolese deforestation and the search for national publics DOI : 10.4324/9780203797693
2016
Keeping things different: coexistence within European markets for cleantech and biofuels DOI : 10.1080/17530350.2015.1110530
2016
Political experiments that matter: Ordering democracy from experimental sites DOI : 10.1177/0306312716668587
2015
A field test and its displacements. Accounting for an experimental mode of industrial innovation DOI : 10.1080/15710882.2015.1081241
2015
The politics of European agencements: constructing a market of sustainable biofuels DOI : 10.1080/09644016.2014.927190
2015
Deliberating responsibility: a collective contribution by the C’Nano IdF Nanoscience & Society Office DOI : 10.1007/s10698-015-9234-z
2015
Operations for a problem of existence: dealing with the ontological uncertainty of nano substances DOI : 10.1007/s10698-015-9233-0
2015
State experiments with public participation: French nanotechnology, Congolese deforestation and the search for national publics
2015
Les museés des sciences comme lieux politiques :la représentation des nanotechnologies en Europe DOI : 10.3917/herm.073.0060
2013
Nanomaterials in political life: In the democracies of nanotechnology DOI : 10.1007/978-1-4471-4213-3
2013
The political spaces of chemicals. International, european and French nanomaterials; [Les espaces politiques des substances chimiques: Définir des nanomatériaux internationaux, européens et Français] DOI : 10.3917/rac.018.0195
2013
Nanomaterials in political life: In the democracies of nanotechnology DOI : 10.1007/978-1-4471-4213-3_15
2013
From scientific laboratories to constitutional orders; [Du laboratoire scientifique: à l'ordre constitutionnel: Analyser la représentation à la suite des études sociales des sciences] DOI : 10.3917/rai.050.0137
2013
The constitutional effect of the ethics of emerging technologies
2012
Science museums as political places. Representing nanotechnology in European science museums DOI : 10.22323/2.11040302
2012
Responsible agencements: Constructing markets for nanotechnology through the European regulation
2011
Political spaces for nanomaterials DOI : 10.1017/S1867299X00001641
2011
Technologies of Democracy: Experiments and Demonstrations DOI : 10.1007/s11948-011-9303-1

Teaching

Elective Course Period (October and January)

Instructor in charge

Introduction to Nanomaterials

Guest Lecturer

- General Introduction - Synthesis, Development - Characterization - Molecular-Scale Modeling - Morphological Modeling and the Nano-Macro Transition - Color Applications - Materials Science Applications - Applications in Pollution Control, Nanoporous Materials, and Catalysis - Applications in Energy - Applications in Nanomedicine - Future Outlook, Industrial and Societal Challenges, Risk Analysis, Toxicity.

PhD supervision

2022 Towards responsible governance of mica value chains: lessons from the formalization practice of artisanal mining by the Responsible Mica Initiative in India and Madagascar DUBOURDIEU Olivier
2022 Investing in "mineral sovereignty": France's policies for critical metal supply. LOUVET Guillaume
2020 The co-construction policy: Post-It citizen and flexible innovation. The case of the Smart Région francilienne TISSERAND Carole-Anne
2017 In transition. When ENGIE reterritorializes under the effect of global warming (2016-2020) DANIELOU Jean
2016 A "Knowledge Bank"? An investigation into the nature and politics of World Bank expertise BOILEVE Felix
2015 The experimental production of urban mobility policies: innovation and the governance of flows in Paris, Medellín, and San Francisco TALVARD Félix

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