Valentin Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609942 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentin Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentin |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon 1 Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6746-2857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘In the absence of adequate data on humans’: Animal bioassay and the transnational machinery for controlling carcinogens
From the 1960s onwards, a growing number of national and international organizations began working to define more precisely what constitutes a carcinogenic exposure. The central question for these new groups of experts soon became what kinds of data authorities should rely on to govern chemicals and their uses. Drawing on new archival material from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, this paper examines th…
Deadly Hazard Without Risk? How Toxic Exposure Has Been Downplayed in Transnational Conflicts Over Carcinogen Assessment
In contemporary carcinogen identification systems, a key distinction is made between “hazard”– the inherent potential of an exposure to cause cancer – and “risk” – the probability of cancerarising from that exposure. Drawing on an unpublished set of archives from the InternationalAgency for Research on Cancer, this article traces the origins of this distinction. Contrary to theprevailing institutional narrative, the distinction emerges not from a…
Résorber l’ignorance, et après: Savoirs journalistiques et mobilisations collectives sur les polluants éternels dans le Sud lyonnais
En mai 2022, la région industrielle du Sud lyonnais en France est identifiée comme un point important de contamination à des substances toxiques persistantes. Cet article analyse les relations entre le travail journalistique local qui entreprend de résorber l’ignorance scientifique sur ces pollutions par la production de nouveaux savoirs, et l’action collective générée par l’offre militante locale. Ces savoirs peuvent servir des formes d’individu…
Les lieux de l'engagement: Luttes socio-spatiales dans le mouvement des Gilets jaunes de l’agglomération lyonnaise
En revenant sur l'évolution du mouvement des Gilets jaunes dans l'agglomération lyonnaise, cet article analyse le rôle de l'espace dans les possibilités d'engagement d'individus issus des classes populaires. Le suivi d'un petit groupe de personnes mobilisées depuis un rond-point de la banlieue industrielle et populaire lyonnaise montre comment les différents « lieux de l'engagement », ainsi que les ressources et les contraintes qui leur sont asso…
Stève Bernardin (dir.), Croisades privées et problèmes publics. L’héritage sociologique de Joseph Gusfield: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2022, 278 p
Cet ouvrage collectif est issu d’un colloque organisé à l’Université Paris Dauphine – PSL les 23 et 24 novembre 2015. Les participant·es étaient invité·es à se saisir de certaines propositions théoriques du sociologue états-unien Joseph Gusfield, notamment celles formulées dans Symbolic Crusade, sur des terrains et selon des usages que ce dernier n’avait pas nécessairement envisagés. Il en résulte une somme de mises au travail de plusieurs concep…
Embrasser la cause des cancers professionnels. Bifurcation d'un service de l'OMS et de son créateur
Cet article porte sur la genèse du positionnement scientifique et politique d’une organisation internationale d’expertise sanitaire publique. Processuelle et constructiviste, la démonstration articule la socialisation professionnelle et politique du créateur de l’institution aux injonctions contingentes et aux contraintes structurelles dans lesquelles cette institution est progressivement plongée. Le propos se concentre sur le Docteur Lorenzo Tom…
From the roundabout to the city center: Women’s activist careers and socio-spatial division of activist labor in the Yellow Vest movement
The Pervasiveness of Corporate Authority
Drawing on different literatures, ranging from research on business associations and “global governance” to that on the social production of ignorance or on “corporate crime”, this chapter aims to contribute to existing work on the capacity of corporate actors to govern and administer the world. We analyze corporate actors not just as actors that influence policy but as actors who have acquired an unprecedented capacity to transform and shape the…
Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority
In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the realms of finance, urban policies, automobile safety, environmental risk, agriculture, and food in western democracies. It renews understanding of the power…
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation
Research on the influence of industry on chemical regulation has mostly been conducted within the framework of the production of ignorance. This special issue extends this research by looking at how industry asserts its interests--not just in the scientific sphere but also at other stages of policy-making and regulatory process--with a specific focus on the types of tools or instruments industry has used. Bringing together sociologists and histor…
Defects in Doubt Manufacturing: The Trajectory of a Pro-industrial Argument in the Struggle for the Definition of Carcinogenic Substances
Recent work in science and technology studies has looked at how chemical industries manufacture doubt about the toxicity of their products and manage to establish their scientific views in the field of international regulations on toxic substances. Rather than examining yet another "victory" for the industry, this article analyzes the deployment of a "pro-industrial" scientific position, punctuated mainly by failure and opposition. This trajector…
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation
Research on the influence of industry on chemical regulation has mostly been conducted within the framework of the production of ignorance. This special issue extends this research by looking at how industry asserts its interests--not just in the scientific sphere but also at other stages of policy-making and regulatory process--with a specific focus on the types of tools or instruments industry has used. Bringing together sociologists and histor…
From the roundabout to the city center: Women’s activist careers and socio-spatial division of activist labor in the Yellow Vest movement
Embrasser la cause des cancers professionnels. Bifurcation d'un service de l'OMS et de son créateur
Cet article porte sur la genèse du positionnement scientifique et politique d’une organisation internationale d’expertise sanitaire publique. Processuelle et constructiviste, la démonstration articule la socialisation professionnelle et politique du créateur de l’institution aux injonctions contingentes et aux contraintes structurelles dans lesquelles cette institution est progressivement plongée. Le propos se concentre sur le Docteur Lorenzo Tom…
Defects in Doubt Manufacturing: The Trajectory of a Pro-industrial Argument in the Struggle for the Definition of Carcinogenic Substances
Recent work in science and technology studies has looked at how chemical industries manufacture doubt about the toxicity of their products and manage to establish their scientific views in the field of international regulations on toxic substances. Rather than examining yet another "victory" for the industry, this article analyzes the deployment of a "pro-industrial" scientific position, punctuated mainly by failure and opposition. This trajector…
The Pervasiveness of Corporate Authority
Drawing on different literatures, ranging from research on business associations and “global governance” to that on the social production of ignorance or on “corporate crime”, this chapter aims to contribute to existing work on the capacity of corporate actors to govern and administer the world. We analyze corporate actors not just as actors that influence policy but as actors who have acquired an unprecedented capacity to transform and shape the…
Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority
In an era of systemic crisis and of global critiques of the unsustainable perpetuation of capitalism, Pervasive Powers: The Politics of Corporate Authority critically questions the conditions for the maintenance and expansion of corporate power. The book explores empirical case studies in the realms of finance, urban policies, automobile safety, environmental risk, agriculture, and food in western democracies. It renews understanding of the power…
Introduction: Beyond the Production of Ignorance: The Pervasiveness of Industry Influence through the Tools of Chemical Regulation
Research on the influence of industry on chemical regulation has mostly been conducted within the framework of the production of ignorance. This special issue extends this research by looking at how industry asserts its interests--not just in the scientific sphere but also at other stages of policy-making and regulatory process--with a specific focus on the types of tools or instruments industry has used. Bringing together sociologists and histor…
Defects in Doubt Manufacturing: The Trajectory of a Pro-industrial Argument in the Struggle for the Definition of Carcinogenic Substances
Recent work in science and technology studies has looked at how chemical industries manufacture doubt about the toxicity of their products and manage to establish their scientific views in the field of international regulations on toxic substances. Rather than examining yet another "victory" for the industry, this article analyzes the deployment of a "pro-industrial" scientific position, punctuated mainly by failure and opposition. This trajector…
From the roundabout to the city center: Women’s activist careers and socio-spatial division of activist labor in the Yellow Vest movement
Stève Bernardin (dir.), Croisades privées et problèmes publics. L’héritage sociologique de Joseph Gusfield: Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2022, 278 p
Cet ouvrage collectif est issu d’un colloque organisé à l’Université Paris Dauphine – PSL les 23 et 24 novembre 2015. Les participant·es étaient invité·es à se saisir de certaines propositions théoriques du sociologue états-unien Joseph Gusfield, notamment celles formulées dans Symbolic Crusade, sur des terrains et selon des usages que ce dernier n’avait pas nécessairement envisagés. Il en résulte une somme de mises au travail de plusieurs concep…
Embrasser la cause des cancers professionnels. Bifurcation d'un service de l'OMS et de son créateur
Cet article porte sur la genèse du positionnement scientifique et politique d’une organisation internationale d’expertise sanitaire publique. Processuelle et constructiviste, la démonstration articule la socialisation professionnelle et politique du créateur de l’institution aux injonctions contingentes et aux contraintes structurelles dans lesquelles cette institution est progressivement plongée. Le propos se concentre sur le Docteur Lorenzo Tom…
Les lieux de l'engagement: Luttes socio-spatiales dans le mouvement des Gilets jaunes de l’agglomération lyonnaise
En revenant sur l'évolution du mouvement des Gilets jaunes dans l'agglomération lyonnaise, cet article analyse le rôle de l'espace dans les possibilités d'engagement d'individus issus des classes populaires. Le suivi d'un petit groupe de personnes mobilisées depuis un rond-point de la banlieue industrielle et populaire lyonnaise montre comment les différents « lieux de l'engagement », ainsi que les ressources et les contraintes qui leur sont asso…
Deadly Hazard Without Risk? How Toxic Exposure Has Been Downplayed in Transnational Conflicts Over Carcinogen Assessment
In contemporary carcinogen identification systems, a key distinction is made between “hazard”– the inherent potential of an exposure to cause cancer – and “risk” – the probability of cancerarising from that exposure. Drawing on an unpublished set of archives from the InternationalAgency for Research on Cancer, this article traces the origins of this distinction. Contrary to theprevailing institutional narrative, the distinction emerges not from a…
Résorber l’ignorance, et après: Savoirs journalistiques et mobilisations collectives sur les polluants éternels dans le Sud lyonnais
En mai 2022, la région industrielle du Sud lyonnais en France est identifiée comme un point important de contamination à des substances toxiques persistantes. Cet article analyse les relations entre le travail journalistique local qui entreprend de résorber l’ignorance scientifique sur ces pollutions par la production de nouveaux savoirs, et l’action collective générée par l’offre militante locale. Ces savoirs peuvent servir des formes d’individu…
‘In the absence of adequate data on humans’: Animal bioassay and the transnational machinery for controlling carcinogens
From the 1960s onwards, a growing number of national and international organizations began working to define more precisely what constitutes a carcinogenic exposure. The central question for these new groups of experts soon became what kinds of data authorities should rely on to govern chemicals and their uses. Drawing on new archival material from the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, this paper examines th…
Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Education, sociology, and vocational training (4 works) · French Urban and Social Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Ignorance (3 works) · Economics (2 works)