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Through the study of the trajectory of a bacterial pathogen (Bacillus cereus) as a scientific subject, this article shows how a food safety institutional injunction becomes a vehicle for mobilization around a scientific food borne risk described as potentially emergent. At first, B. cereus is a boun...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/18342 |
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| Summary: | Through the study of the trajectory of a bacterial pathogen (Bacillus cereus) as a scientific subject, this article shows how a food safety institutional injunction becomes a vehicle for mobilization around a scientific food borne risk described as potentially emergent. At first, B. cereus is a boundary object for microbiologists with contradictory aims (fundamental vs. applied research), then for researchers belonging to distant disciplines (modeling, social sciences) and industry in a ANR project. These collaborations are based on ontological and practical flexibility of the bacteria and a relatively decoupled definition of projects that allow each team to maintain its own activities. However, this flexibility is itself a source of new knowledge through the confrontation of various concepts of risk, taxonomy and through the exchange of strains. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |