Home>Paule Yacoub
Research Interest(s): Agricultural policies , Ecological transition, Technological innovations
Discipline(s): Sociology
Research Group(s): Public Policy and Transformations of the State, Work, Employment and Professions, Governance and Economic Organisations
Biography
FORMATION
2018-2021
Masters in Environmental Policy – Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris
Master thesis in sociology
“Advisors at the crossroad – the farm advisory market faced with the separation of farm advisory and pesticide selling (French case)”, under the supervision of
Sylvain Brunier
2015-2018
Double Bachelor in Law and Biology – Sorbonne University and Panthéon-Assas University, Paris
Current Research
Since september 2022
PhD candidate, Centre de Sociologie des Organisation, Sciences Po Paris
Thesis subject : Subcontracting and greening ? Agricultural labour changes and ecological transition policies
Co-supervisors : Sylvain Brunier et Jean-Noël Jouzel
Projects
November 2021 – April 2022
Researcher – “Interdisciplinary approaches to Pesticides- Related Health Effects in Africa – with a focus on Tanzania” (PREHEAT) Program
Institutions porteuses : Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Tanzanie), EHESS, CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris 13, Université de Bordeaux
Project n°3 : pesticide market and policy analysis in Tanzania
Juillet – Octobre 2021
Research assistant - Project « gouverner la distance : pesticides et santé des habitants, de la mesure scientifique aux mesures politiques » under the supervision of Sylvain Brunier and Jean-Noël Jouzel
Thesis topic
Subcontracting and greening ? Agricultural labour changes and ecological transition policies
Teaching
2024-2025
“Grandes Enquêtes”, methodology in sociology, conférences de méthode (L2), Sciences Po Paris (2x24h)
2023-2024
Teaching assistant for the student’s collective survey, Master of Sociology, Sciences Po Paris (30h)
“Industrial capitalism and environmental justice through a social science lens”, cours séminaire (L2-L3), Sciences Po Paris (16h), with Sylvain Brunier
2022-2023
« Introduction to sociology », conférences de méthode (L1), Sciences Po, Campus de Nancy
(2 x 24h)
RESEARCH SEMINAR ORGANIZATION
Since 2024
co-organisation of the program for work, employment and professions studies, CSO
Since 2023
co-organisation of the "Sens Ecologique(s)" seminar
(https://sensecolo.hypotheses.org/)
publications
COMMUNICATIONS :
Yacoub P., “Spraying the competition. The issue of plant health as a tool for legitimising agricultural subcontracting”, French Sociological Association Congress, RT25, 8 July 2025.
Yacoub P., “Is greening a form of “dirty work”? Subcontracting and pollution in the agricultural world”, theme 5 “The impact of ‘crises’ on work organisation, disorganisation and
reorganisation”, International Conference on the Sociology of Work, 2 July 2024
Yacoub P., “Delegating and greening work ? Subcontracting and ecological transition in the agricultural world”, theme 4 “What public policies do to the organisation, disorganisation and reorganisation of work”, International Conference on the Sociology of Work, 3 July 2024
Yacoub P., “Advisors at the crossroad – the farm advisory market faced with the separation of farm advisory and pesticide selling (French case)”, Congrès de l’Association française de sociologie, session croisée RT12/RT38, july 4, 2023.
Yacoub P., “Les agriculteurs-entrepreneurs et leur clientèle : pluriactivité et conciliation des enjeux économiques et environnementaux”, Journées d’étude « Expériences de travail et carrières plurielles. La pluriactivité en questions », 20 juin 2023.
