François Dedieu is a sociologist at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA). His research looks at the relationships between organizations and knowledge production with regard to risk. By studying the risks triggered by pesticide use in agriculture, he looks at the construction of ignorance within public policy making, including the following questions: under what social, political, and organizational conditions is it possible to acknowledge the multiple dangers of pesticides? Which of these dangers are persistently left in the dark and why? François is a professor at Sciences Po Paris (qualitative methodology), at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (sociology of risk and ignorance), and at AgroParisTech.
Selected bibliography:
Book:
- Dedieu, F. (2013), Une catastrophe ordinaire : la tempête du 27 décembre 1999, une catastrophe accidentelle, Editions EHESS, Col. Cas de Figure.
Articles:
- Dedieu, F., Jouzel, J.N., Prete, G. (2015), “Governing by ignoring: the manufacture and the function of the underreporting of farmworkers pesticide poisoning in France and in California”, in Gross, M; Mc Goey, L. (2015) (eds) Routlege International Handbook of Ignorance Studies.
- Dedieu, F. and Jouzel, J.N. (2015) “Comment ignorer ce que l’on sait ? La domestication organisationnelle des savoirs inconfortables”, Revue Française de Sociologie, vol, 56, No. 1, p. 105-133.
- Jouzel, J.N. and Dedieu, F. (2012), “Rendre visible et laisser dans l’ombre. Quand les savoirs sur les maladies professionnelles induites par les pesticides construisent leur méconnaissance”, Revue Française de Sciences Politiques, Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 29-49.
- Dedieu, F. (2009) “Alerte et catastrophe : le cas des risques scélérats”, Sociologie du Travail, vol. 51, July-September; p. 379-401.