Jean François Bissonnette
Biographic Data
| ID | 112395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean François Bissonnette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean François |
| FAMILY NAME | Bissonnette |
| SIGNATURE | BISSONNETTE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5064-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to integrate wetlands in urban planning to achieve greater resilience? The case of Douala IV urban municipality (Cameroon)
Integrating wetlands into urban planning is a critical challenge for sustainable and resilient cities worldwide. This study examines the Douala IV urban municipality in Cameroon, where wetlands face intense pressures from population growth, industrial expansion, and unregulated urbanization. Using a mixed-methods approach combining GIS-based spatial analysis, field observations, and 27 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, we quantifi…
Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada
During the last decades, global conservation efforts shifted from a mostly top-down process to preserve ecosystems on public lands to diverse governance processes involving stakeholders and conservation on private lands. Following these trends, the Quebec government (Canada) also engaged in biodiversity conservation efforts on private lands to reduce perceived environmental injustice arising from imposed conservation measures. However, citizen in…
The moral economy of student debt: A pharmacological approach
Over the past three decades, student debt has surged in most English-speaking countries. Despite this trend, enrollment at universities has steadily risen, which testifies to the enduring appeal that higher education still exerts on middle-class individuals and families. Nevertheless, the policies responsible for this growing indebtedness have also stirred up their share of controversy. In an attempt to make sense of these debates, this article f…
Remote participatory research has logistical benefits, but presents scientific and ethical challenges
The green economy as plantation ecology: When dehumanization and ecological simplification go 'green
The green economy is proposed as a solution to address growing and potentially irreversible ecological crises. But what happens when environmental solutions are premised on the same logics of brutal simplification and dehumanization that sustain and reinforce systems of oppression and ecological breakdown? In this article, we describe the transformation of the biophysical landscape of the planet into replicable blueprints of the plantation plot. …
Intervention levers for increasing social acceptance of conservation measures on private land: A systematic literature review and comprehensive typology
Private lands are increasingly targeted for ecological restoration and conservation initiatives in high-income countries. However, the fragmented nature of private land tenure, the large number of landowners and their heterogeneous profiles can pose significant challenges for conservation initiatives. This can lead to a range in landowners’ attitudes toward conservation initiatives, with some initiatives being received with resistance, and others…
Le « printemps érable » et la lutte étudiante contre la discipline de l'endettement
L'annonce de l'augmentation des frais de scolarité universitaires par le gouvernement provincial du Québec a provoqué une lutte étudiante massive. Les étudiant·es en grève, dénommé·es « carrés rouges » en référence au carré de feutre rouge épinglé à leur boutonnière, symbolisant le refus de devoir plonger « carrément dans le rouge » pour pouvoir étudier, ont dénoncé non seulement la hausse des frais d'inscription, mais aussi le système d'endettem…
The political rationalities of indebtedness: Control, discipline, sovereignty
This article examines the political character of debt relations, focusing in particular on the increasingly important phenomenon of personal indebtedness. Following Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, it distinguishes between three forms of 'rationality' that explain the various power dynamics at play beneath the formal and seemingly voluntary loan contract. Debt first exemplifies the open-ended flows of power that circulate in the networked stru…
Après Occupy Wall Street: Construire la solidarité des endettés
Nous proposons d’entendre ici la rationalité politique d’Occupy Wall Street comme une protestation contre une situation d’endettement qui se présente aujourd’hui telle une « condition existentielle » pour la majorité des Américains, et comme une tentative de construire un lien de solidarité entre les endettés par la mise en relief de la dimension structurelle et collective de cette condition partagée. Nous analyserons ainsi les discours et les st…
Présentation du dossier: Néolibéralisme Et Subjectivité
Au sein du corpus désormais fourni des ouvrages de théorie critique qui ont pris pour objet le néolibéralisme, une thématique nodale a émergé : l’étude des rapports entre le néolibéralisme et la subjectivité. Il s’agit d’analyser le(s) type(s) d’individualité(s) et de relation(s) sociale(s) qu’impliquent les dynamiques économiques, culturelles et sociales propres à la période néolibérale du capitalisme. À partir d’une réactivation et d’un examen …
Du tremplin au levier: De l’endettement spéculatif des étudiants dans l’université néolibérale
L’endettement massif des étudiants dans les pays anglo-saxons apparaît comme l’un des effets les plus marquants de l’irruption d’une rationalité néolibérale dans le monde de l’enseignement supérieur. Cet article vise à montrer comment le besoin d’emprunter pour étudier reformule, dans une logique de spéculation financière, les espoirs d’avancement socio-économique traditionnellement associés à l’obtention d’un diplôme universitaire. Il expose d’a…
From the moral to the neural: Brain Scans, Decision-Making, and the Problematization of Economic (Ir)rationality
Advances in brain imaging techniques have opened new fields of investigation and often challenged conventional assumptions concerning human behaviour. This ‘neuromolecular gaze’ [Rose, N. & Abi-Rached, J. (2013) Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] also heralds new ways of intervening in the regulation of social phenomena, based on the objectification of the cerebral processes th…
Development through Large-Scale Oil Palm Agribusiness Schemes: Representations of Possibilities and the Experience of Limits in West Kalimantan
The potential of oil palm agribusiness for socio-economic development in Indonesia remains a matter of debate. There are important differences between the government’s representation of oil palm agribusiness as a panacea for the problems of development and the realities of this economic system as manifested on the ground. The analysis of land acquisition practices and labour regimes in an oil palm smallholding scheme in West Kalimantan brings fre…
Development through Large-Scale Oil Palm Agribusiness Schemes: Representations of Possibilities and the Experience of Limits in West Kalimantan
The potential of oil palm agribusiness for socio-economic development in Indonesia remains a matter of debate. There are important differences between the government’s representation of oil palm agribusiness as a panacea for the problems of development and the realities of this economic system as manifested on the ground. The analysis of land acquisition practices and labour regimes in an oil palm smallholding scheme in West Kalimantan brings fre…
Du tremplin au levier: De l’endettement spéculatif des étudiants dans l’université néolibérale
L’endettement massif des étudiants dans les pays anglo-saxons apparaît comme l’un des effets les plus marquants de l’irruption d’une rationalité néolibérale dans le monde de l’enseignement supérieur. Cet article vise à montrer comment le besoin d’emprunter pour étudier reformule, dans une logique de spéculation financière, les espoirs d’avancement socio-économique traditionnellement associés à l’obtention d’un diplôme universitaire. Il expose d’a…
The moral economy of student debt: A pharmacological approach
Over the past three decades, student debt has surged in most English-speaking countries. Despite this trend, enrollment at universities has steadily risen, which testifies to the enduring appeal that higher education still exerts on middle-class individuals and families. Nevertheless, the policies responsible for this growing indebtedness have also stirred up their share of controversy. In an attempt to make sense of these debates, this article f…
The green economy as plantation ecology: When dehumanization and ecological simplification go 'green
The green economy is proposed as a solution to address growing and potentially irreversible ecological crises. But what happens when environmental solutions are premised on the same logics of brutal simplification and dehumanization that sustain and reinforce systems of oppression and ecological breakdown? In this article, we describe the transformation of the biophysical landscape of the planet into replicable blueprints of the plantation plot. …
The political rationalities of indebtedness: Control, discipline, sovereignty
This article examines the political character of debt relations, focusing in particular on the increasingly important phenomenon of personal indebtedness. Following Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, it distinguishes between three forms of 'rationality' that explain the various power dynamics at play beneath the formal and seemingly voluntary loan contract. Debt first exemplifies the open-ended flows of power that circulate in the networked stru…
Présentation du dossier: Néolibéralisme Et Subjectivité
Au sein du corpus désormais fourni des ouvrages de théorie critique qui ont pris pour objet le néolibéralisme, une thématique nodale a émergé : l’étude des rapports entre le néolibéralisme et la subjectivité. Il s’agit d’analyser le(s) type(s) d’individualité(s) et de relation(s) sociale(s) qu’impliquent les dynamiques économiques, culturelles et sociales propres à la période néolibérale du capitalisme. À partir d’une réactivation et d’un examen …
From the moral to the neural: Brain Scans, Decision-Making, and the Problematization of Economic (Ir)rationality
Advances in brain imaging techniques have opened new fields of investigation and often challenged conventional assumptions concerning human behaviour. This ‘neuromolecular gaze’ [Rose, N. & Abi-Rached, J. (2013) Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] also heralds new ways of intervening in the regulation of social phenomena, based on the objectification of the cerebral processes th…
Development through Large-Scale Oil Palm Agribusiness Schemes: Representations of Possibilities and the Experience of Limits in West Kalimantan
The potential of oil palm agribusiness for socio-economic development in Indonesia remains a matter of debate. There are important differences between the government’s representation of oil palm agribusiness as a panacea for the problems of development and the realities of this economic system as manifested on the ground. The analysis of land acquisition practices and labour regimes in an oil palm smallholding scheme in West Kalimantan brings fre…
From the moral to the neural: Brain Scans, Decision-Making, and the Problematization of Economic (Ir)rationality
Advances in brain imaging techniques have opened new fields of investigation and often challenged conventional assumptions concerning human behaviour. This ‘neuromolecular gaze’ [Rose, N. & Abi-Rached, J. (2013) Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ] also heralds new ways of intervening in the regulation of social phenomena, based on the objectification of the cerebral processes th…
Présentation du dossier: Néolibéralisme Et Subjectivité
Au sein du corpus désormais fourni des ouvrages de théorie critique qui ont pris pour objet le néolibéralisme, une thématique nodale a émergé : l’étude des rapports entre le néolibéralisme et la subjectivité. Il s’agit d’analyser le(s) type(s) d’individualité(s) et de relation(s) sociale(s) qu’impliquent les dynamiques économiques, culturelles et sociales propres à la période néolibérale du capitalisme. À partir d’une réactivation et d’un examen …
Du tremplin au levier: De l’endettement spéculatif des étudiants dans l’université néolibérale
L’endettement massif des étudiants dans les pays anglo-saxons apparaît comme l’un des effets les plus marquants de l’irruption d’une rationalité néolibérale dans le monde de l’enseignement supérieur. Cet article vise à montrer comment le besoin d’emprunter pour étudier reformule, dans une logique de spéculation financière, les espoirs d’avancement socio-économique traditionnellement associés à l’obtention d’un diplôme universitaire. Il expose d’a…
Après Occupy Wall Street: Construire la solidarité des endettés
Nous proposons d’entendre ici la rationalité politique d’Occupy Wall Street comme une protestation contre une situation d’endettement qui se présente aujourd’hui telle une « condition existentielle » pour la majorité des Américains, et comme une tentative de construire un lien de solidarité entre les endettés par la mise en relief de la dimension structurelle et collective de cette condition partagée. Nous analyserons ainsi les discours et les st…
Le « printemps érable » et la lutte étudiante contre la discipline de l'endettement
L'annonce de l'augmentation des frais de scolarité universitaires par le gouvernement provincial du Québec a provoqué une lutte étudiante massive. Les étudiant·es en grève, dénommé·es « carrés rouges » en référence au carré de feutre rouge épinglé à leur boutonnière, symbolisant le refus de devoir plonger « carrément dans le rouge » pour pouvoir étudier, ont dénoncé non seulement la hausse des frais d'inscription, mais aussi le système d'endettem…
The political rationalities of indebtedness: Control, discipline, sovereignty
This article examines the political character of debt relations, focusing in particular on the increasingly important phenomenon of personal indebtedness. Following Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, it distinguishes between three forms of 'rationality' that explain the various power dynamics at play beneath the formal and seemingly voluntary loan contract. Debt first exemplifies the open-ended flows of power that circulate in the networked stru…
Intervention levers for increasing social acceptance of conservation measures on private land: A systematic literature review and comprehensive typology
Private lands are increasingly targeted for ecological restoration and conservation initiatives in high-income countries. However, the fragmented nature of private land tenure, the large number of landowners and their heterogeneous profiles can pose significant challenges for conservation initiatives. This can lead to a range in landowners’ attitudes toward conservation initiatives, with some initiatives being received with resistance, and others…
Remote participatory research has logistical benefits, but presents scientific and ethical challenges
The green economy as plantation ecology: When dehumanization and ecological simplification go 'green
The green economy is proposed as a solution to address growing and potentially irreversible ecological crises. But what happens when environmental solutions are premised on the same logics of brutal simplification and dehumanization that sustain and reinforce systems of oppression and ecological breakdown? In this article, we describe the transformation of the biophysical landscape of the planet into replicable blueprints of the plantation plot. …
The moral economy of student debt: A pharmacological approach
Over the past three decades, student debt has surged in most English-speaking countries. Despite this trend, enrollment at universities has steadily risen, which testifies to the enduring appeal that higher education still exerts on middle-class individuals and families. Nevertheless, the policies responsible for this growing indebtedness have also stirred up their share of controversy. In an attempt to make sense of these debates, this article f…
Avoiding an anticipated social-ecological trap in biodiversity conservation on private lands in Quebec province, Canada
During the last decades, global conservation efforts shifted from a mostly top-down process to preserve ecosystems on public lands to diverse governance processes involving stakeholders and conservation on private lands. Following these trends, the Quebec government (Canada) also engaged in biodiversity conservation efforts on private lands to reduce perceived environmental injustice arising from imposed conservation measures. However, citizen in…
How to integrate wetlands in urban planning to achieve greater resilience? The case of Douala IV urban municipality (Cameroon)
Integrating wetlands into urban planning is a critical challenge for sustainable and resilient cities worldwide. This study examines the Douala IV urban municipality in Cameroon, where wetlands face intense pressures from population growth, industrial expansion, and unregulated urbanization. Using a mixed-methods approach combining GIS-based spatial analysis, field observations, and 27 semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, we quantifi…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Environmental Science (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (3 works)