Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons

The Garden Butterfly observatory (OPJ) has been running since 2006. It is the result of a collaboration between a Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History and Noé Conservation, a NGO dedicated to the promotion of Nature’s protection. The OPJ is an epitome for citizen sciences, in which k...

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Main Author: Florian Charvolin
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Language:fra
Published: Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances 2013-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rac/7147
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description The Garden Butterfly observatory (OPJ) has been running since 2006. It is the result of a collaboration between a Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History and Noé Conservation, a NGO dedicated to the promotion of Nature’s protection. The OPJ is an epitome for citizen sciences, in which knowledge is jointly produced by professionals and lay people. This paper exemplifies a special managerial stance which amounts to keeping open the possibility to take part in the project without previous requirement in terms of competence. This requires a pragmatic method that leads to an end-of-pipe complexification in the statistic treatment of butterflies populations and their evolution. This pragmatism which tries to break up the learning into simple operations, is addressed in this paper, by comparing it with ethnomethods of several amateurs effectively involved in OPJ, through which lay people conduct their actions in a complex manner to fit, at the end, with a standardized protocol. It leads to stress the symmetry between the way the protocol operates in the scientific world on the one hand, and in the world of amateurs on the other, thanks to an interpretive flexibility and material connectivity, which are also called “user friendliness”. We conclude on the importance for human creativity of exosomatic technologies that develop accuracy and precision and enable a better ability to tell apart species and fuel biographic trajectories with an ever more vivid recollection of memories and creation of “souvenirs” for the future.
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spelling doaj-art-1c871b50ff26419ca75cf7d251b2bb172025-08-20T03:10:41ZfraSociété d'Anthropologie des ConnaissancesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances1760-53932013-06-017210.3917/rac.019.0485Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillonsFlorian CharvolinThe Garden Butterfly observatory (OPJ) has been running since 2006. It is the result of a collaboration between a Laboratory of the National Museum of Natural History and Noé Conservation, a NGO dedicated to the promotion of Nature’s protection. The OPJ is an epitome for citizen sciences, in which knowledge is jointly produced by professionals and lay people. This paper exemplifies a special managerial stance which amounts to keeping open the possibility to take part in the project without previous requirement in terms of competence. This requires a pragmatic method that leads to an end-of-pipe complexification in the statistic treatment of butterflies populations and their evolution. This pragmatism which tries to break up the learning into simple operations, is addressed in this paper, by comparing it with ethnomethods of several amateurs effectively involved in OPJ, through which lay people conduct their actions in a complex manner to fit, at the end, with a standardized protocol. It leads to stress the symmetry between the way the protocol operates in the scientific world on the one hand, and in the world of amateurs on the other, thanks to an interpretive flexibility and material connectivity, which are also called “user friendliness”. We conclude on the importance for human creativity of exosomatic technologies that develop accuracy and precision and enable a better ability to tell apart species and fuel biographic trajectories with an ever more vivid recollection of memories and creation of “souvenirs” for the future.https://journals.openedition.org/rac/7147pragmatismcitizen scienceentomologynatural sciencebutterflylearned societie
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Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
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pragmatism
citizen science
entomology
natural science
butterfly
learned societie
title Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
title_full Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
title_fullStr Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
title_full_unstemmed Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
title_short Pense-bêtes, astuces et recettes de jardiniers-observateurs de papillons
title_sort pense betes astuces et recettes de jardiniers observateurs de papillons
topic pragmatism
citizen science
entomology
natural science
butterfly
learned societie
url https://journals.openedition.org/rac/7147
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