« Ça tue parfois mais ce n’est pas dangereux »
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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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2009-03-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj-art-89f13db9fbc84a1aba14d9443d26634e2025-08-20T02:12:42ZfraSociété d'Anthropologie des ConnaissancesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances1760-53932009-03-013110.3917/rac.006.0073« Ça tue parfois mais ce n’est pas dangereux »Gilles TétartDidier TornyThrough 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.https://journals.openedition.org/rac/18342sociologyinterdisciplinarityboundary objectmicrobiologyemergence |
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| title | « Ça tue parfois mais ce n’est pas dangereux » |
| title_full | « Ça tue parfois mais ce n’est pas dangereux » |
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| title_short | « Ça tue parfois mais ce n’est pas dangereux » |
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| topic | sociology interdisciplinarity boundary object microbiology emergence |
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