02
Novembre 2022
Séminaire

What is A Cystal Ball Made Of. The Expert Construction of Time in Macroeconomic Forecasting
02/11/2022
10:00 ▸ 12:00
With Olivier Pilmis… Lire la suite

Cette présentation se tient dans le cadre du New Research on Europe Seminar, organisé par le Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Lieu : Hoffman Room, à Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge (Ma)

Organisé par : Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Évènement en english
08
Novembre 2022
Séminaire

Why do we consume so much? Research agenda for a political economy of abundance
08/11/2022
12:30 ▸ 14:00
With Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier - CEE General Seminar… Lire la suite

Why do we consume so much? 
Research agenda for a political economy of abundance

(The presentation will be in french and the PowerPoint in english)
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Tuesday 8 November 2022

12.30 - 2 pm

 

Sciences Po, Room Salle du Conseil, 
13 rue de l'Université , 75007 Paris and via Zoom*
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In the context of the calls for sufficiency held by climate experts, consumption is a major lever of ecological transition. Following numerous social sciences studies, I suggest that the belief that such an ecological transition could rest on the shoulders of consumers alone is illusory. I highlight the strong interdependencies within a political economy of affluent consumption between public policies, corporate business models and consumer practices. Taking an economic sociological and Foucauldian perspective, I develop a research agenda to explore how affluent consumption becomes a legitimised and institutionalised norm. Affluent consumption, which is highly resource intensive, is structural in both economic policies of governments and business models of companies and is therefore constantly organised and governed. However, it is not imposed on individuals by force. The government of consumption is based on technologies of power that shape and orient consumers’ conduct, leading them to adopt the norms of affluent consumption by activating and playing on their dispositions acquired through market socialisation.
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Speaker

Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier est directrice de recherche au CNRS et directrice adjointe du Centre de sociologie des organisations à Sciences Po. Ses travaux portent sur la fabrique sociale de l'action économique à l'articulation des interventions des politiques publiques, des mobilisations collectives et des organisations marchandes. Elle est co-directrice de la Revue française de sociologie, membre du Haut conseil pour le climat et présidente du Conseil scientifique de l'Ademe.

 

Discussant

Arno Lizet, Sciences Po, CEE
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Chair

Philippe Bezes, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS

 

Registration : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf66beBuRia_F_82USjnsn-4f9u_r-TcysGo_BEm-IkoswD_A/viewform
Organisé par : CEE
Évènement en english
Séminaire
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In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European Pharmaceutical Markets through Post-Political Struggles.
25/11/2022
10:00 ▸ 12:00
AxPo/CSO seminar with Susi Geiger & Etienne Nouguez… Lire la suite

You are invited to the first AxPo/CSO joint seminar of the year with Susi Geiger on Friday, November 25, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. in Salle Goguel (27 rue Saint-Guillaume), entitled
In the Name of Transparency: Organizing European Pharmaceutical Markets through Post-Political Struggles.

Susi Geiger is Professor of Marketing & Market Studies at the UCD Smurfit School of Business, Dublin, Ireland.

Discussion by: Etienne Nouguez, Centre for the Sociology of Organisations (CSO), Sciences Po

When: Friday 25 November 2022, 10:00-12:00 (Paris time)

Location: Salle Goguel, 27 rue Saint-Guillaume, 75007 Paris
There will also be a Zoom option to enable a hybrid seminar. Registration required.
Registration required at the link below: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11xfEHPsxdzP4MJi98sKwaNMTitIJlqHvlJz6VCKYUBo/edit?pli=1

Abstract:

The controversies surrounding the heavily redacted contracts between the European Commission and COVID-19 vaccine producers have highlighted ‘transparency’ as a hotly debated concept in the European pharmaceutical market.

In this presentation, we show that the intersection between the pharmaceutical market and concerns about affordable medicines has come to depend on variable meanings of the notion of transparency, as mobilized by diverse market organizers. While being a guiding principle behind the construction of the European pharmaceutical sector, market transparency was implemented through devices that enacted specific definitions of transparency and thus produced distinct market organizations over time.

We identify three visions of transparency that became translated into distinct organizational arrangements of the pharmaceutical market: transparency for states (until 1990), transparency for corporations (1990-2010), and transparency for state coalitions (since 2010). Our article sheds light on how struggles over the definition of transparency play a crucial role in the organization of markets.

We also discuss why engaging in such controversies has become increasingly important for those contesting the market status quo in a post-political context, emphasizing the ‘not-so-post-political’ potential of these debates.

 

For more information, please contact:
Allison E. Rovny, Ph.D. Administrative Director AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization Sciences Po, allison.rovny@sciencespo.fr

Organisé par : CSO/AxPo
Évènement en english