Massart Clémence

I’ve got a multidisciplinary academic education : after a Master and a CAPES in Philology of Romance Languages, I’ve done a Diploma of Specialized Studies in Sciences and Environmental Management and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in International Relations and European integration (University of Liège, Belgium). Following these studies, I conducted the Synerwal study (synergy of tools and Walloon SMEs) at the Spiral laboratory in Ulg (Belgium), designed to describe the adequacy between public offers and the needs of SMEs in the food sector. I then carried out a sociology PhD on Lyme disease, co-directed by the University of Grenoble (France) and the University of Liège (Belgium) and co-financed by INRA  (RiTME, Ivry) and Irstea (DTM, Grenoble).

After my PhD, I taught two years in the Master of Science and Management of the Environment (Ulg, Seed). The teachings were anchored in the sociology of science, pragmatic sociology and field learning (interviews, questionnaires and observations on different environmental themes). This experience enabled me to understand, with the students, a wide range of controversial environmental problems (bovine tuberculosis, beaver management in the Belgium, Fos-sur-Mer incinerator, etc.). In this job, I also participated in the development of a participatory project on the theme of rural energy transition : the Citizen Climate Parliament. The main feature of the project was to mobilize the random draw to obtain a diverse panel and a wide range of views on measures to be taken to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. It was also part of the European Network of Small Rural Communes for Energy Neutrality (RURENER) which replicated the initiative in several places. Last, the results of the Citizen Climate Parliament were presented at COP21 (Paris, 2015).

Finally, I realized a research stay at the PACTE laboratory (University of Grenoble) to deepen the approach by the practices I had developed in my PhD. This collaborative project, set up between PACTE and the Hunters Federation of Isère (FDCI), aimed to characterize hunting knowledge, to compare it with other knowledge developed about nature (agricultural and naturalist knowledge) and to shed light on their conflicting encounters around the management of a regional nature reserve and the presence within it of wild boars that escape the hunting measures. Through the supervision of an internship, the participation in meetings and the conduct of interviews, I was able to describe finely how the actors built their knowledge and what, in the end, distinguished their practices and crystallized the controversy.

Today, I am starting a one-year postdoctoral position to coordinate the publication of a collective work on mountain resorts in France and around the world. This is in line with the objectives of enhancement and visibility of the Labex ITEM.