Pesticides (eBook, ePUB)

Pluridisciplinary Dialogues in Social and Human Sciences
Redaktion: Botero, Nataly; Allard-Huver, Francois; Ledouble, Helene

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Produktbeschreibung

The use of pesticides is a subject of intense public debate. Whether in media, legal, terminological or political terms, the subject is migrating from a strictly agricultural universe to a global, social problem.

Given the complexity of current and future issues, Pesticides provides a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue and debate on plant protection products within the humanities and social sciences. It presents reflections on the discursive and argumentative activity of the various players and arenas in the debate, and on the development and testing of consensus through controversy and counter-discourse.

This book examines the scientific and communication practices of economic and industrial players (influence and lobbying), agricultural practices in terms of pesticide exposure, and the legal proceedings and initiatives of local authorities and associations. It also seeks to shed light on the media coverage of health and environmental issues surrounding pesticides.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 355
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781394340705
• Artikelnr.: 72484398

Autorenporträt

Nataly Botero is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France. She works on the media coverage of ecological issues in France. Hélène Ledouble is Associate Professor at the University of Toulon, France. She works in applied linguistics and textual data analysis and is particularly interested in popularizing discourse on environmental issues. François Allard-Huver is Associate Professor in Information and Communication studies at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France, and a researcher at CHUS. He is interested in environmental and health controversies and polemics in the public sphere.

Inhaltsangabe

Author Presentation ix
Foreword xv
Eve Bureau-Point And Carole Barthélémy
Introduction xix
Nataly Botero, Hélène Ledouble And François Allard-Huver
Chapter 1 Ergotoxicology in Action: Understanding Work-Activity Pesticide
Exposures 1
Fabienne Goutille, Louis Galey, Clémence Rambaud, Laurence Thery And Alain
Garrigou
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Ergotoxicology 2
1.2.1 Characterizing exposure in real work 2
1.2.2 The participation of working people 4
1.3 Examples of ergotoxicology applications in agriculture 5
1.3.1 The contribution of ergotoxicology to field epidemiology in the
analysis of pesticide contamination among pesticide farmers 6
1.3.2 Ergotoxicology's contribution to understanding situations involving
pesticide risk 12
1.4 Contributions and limits of ergotoxicology to the characterization of
pesticide exposure 23
1.5 References 25
Chapter 2 Thinking about Pesticides in Terms of a "Socio-technical Lock-in"
of Information 31
Jan Smolinski
2.1 Introduction 31
2.2 Communicating using the term pesticide: why and how? 32
2.2.1 Why communicate about pesticides? 33
2.2.2 How can we communicate about pesticides? 34
2.3 Commitments to monitoring the use of plant protection products in the
definition of food "quality" 35
2.3.1 Method for identifying digital devices for guiding food choice 35
2.3.2 Statistical treatment 36
2.4 The role of plant protection product use in quality assessment using
digital devices 39
2.4.1 Information "lock-in": interviews with representatives of the devices
39
2.5 Initiatives to "unlock information": the case of Zéro résidu de
pesticides and Planet-score 43
2.5.1 Zéro résidu de pesticides (Zero pesticide residues) 43
2.5.2 Planet-score 47
2.6 Conclusion 52
2.7 References 52
Chapter 3 Activist Measures and Legal Levers: An Interview with Dominique
Masset 55
Nataly Botero, Hélène Ledouble And François Allard-Huver
Chapter 4 The Globalization of Regulatory Science on Pesticides: History
and Effects on European Law 73
Annie Martin
4.1 Introduction 73
4.2 Chemical safety ideas and tools promoted worldwide by the OECD 78
4.2.1 Ideas promoted by the OECD in the chemical sector 78
4.2.2 Tools developed by the OECD in the chemical sector 80
4.3 The effects of the OECD's promotion of chemical safety ideas and tools
in European law 83
4.3.1 The flow of regulatory science from the OECD to the European Union 84
4.3.2 A regulatory science that produces ignorance 85
4.4 Conclusion 88
4.5 References 89
Chapter 5 Fighting the Colorado Potato Beetle in Francoist Spain
(1939-1953) 97
José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez
5.1 Introduction 97
5.2 The technopolitics of pesticides 99
5.3 Autarky and arsenic pesticides 101
5.4 Controlling the Colorado beetle 102
5.4.1 The role of agronomists 104
5.4.2 Campaigns and resistance: the case of the Burgos province 106
5.5 The arrival of DDT 108
5.6 Controlling quality, neglecting risk 110
5.7 Conclusion 112
5.8 References 112
Chapter 6 From Pesticides to Thyroid Diseases: Media Coverage of a Nameless
Problem 119
Estera Badau
6.1 Introduction 119
6.2 Thyroid diseases: publicization and media coverage 121
6.2.1 Perspectives from humanities and social sciences research on thyroid
diseases 123
6.3 Methodology 124
6.3.1 Analytical corpus and methodological aspects 124
6.3.2 Analysis method 126
6.4 Results: thyroid-disrupting pesticides, a nameless public health
problem 127
6.4.1 From the difficulty of naming reality... 127
6.4.2 ...to denouncing conflicts of interest within European public
authorities 131
6.5 Conclusion 135
6.6 References 137
Chapter 7 Discursive Strategies of a Sociotechnical Network: The Case of
Natural Plant Defense Stimulators 141
Antoine Blanchard
7.1 Introduction 141
7.2 The role of SDNs in the field of plant protection 142
7.2.1 Discursive strategies at the service of a sociotechnical network 143
7.2.2 Discourse analysis method and corpus 145
7.2.3 A hegemonic term 145
7.3 Specificity of SDNs in areas of communication 146
7.3.1 Study of scientific literature (1994-2008) 146
7.3.2 Study of technical and marketing documentation (1997-2007) 148
7.3.3 Study of the trade press (1997-2007) 149
7.3.4 Study of the daily and weekly press (1997-2007) 151
7.3.5 Study of the popular press (1993-2007) 159
7.4 A discursive approach separate to that of biopesticides 160
7.5 Conclusion 162
7.5.1 Discourses to support the SDN sociotechnical network 162
7.5.2 A recent trend marked by the rise of biocontrol 163
7.6 References 164
Chapter 8 Circulation of Discourses and Counter-discourses about Pesticides
on Social Networks 169
Albin Wagener
8.1 Introduction 169
8.2 A discursive analysis of corpora 170
8.3 Corpus and methodology 173
8.4 Analysis results 176
8.5 Pesticides, between food and agricultural production 184
8.6 A variety of positions 184
8.7 Main themes 187
8.8 Conclusion 188
8.9 References 189
List of Authors 193
Index 195