Jean-Noël Jouzel

bio

Jean-Noël Jouzel works on controversies related to environmental and occupational health issues. His research combines perspectives from science studies, the sociology of public action, and the sociology of mobilisation to contribute to the current boom in work on the social construction of ignorance. His current inquiries focus on pesticides and their effects on the health of exposed populations (workers and residents); the monitoring of chemical risks related to nanomaterials; and the role of hospital medicine in the knowledge and recognition of occupational diseases.

publications

• CAVALIN, C., HENRY, E., JOUZEL, J.-N. et PELISSE, J. (dir.) (2020), Cent ans de sous-reconnaissance des maladies professionnelles, Paris, Presses de l’Ecole des Mines. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/CSO/hal-03109382
• JOUZEL, J.-N. (2019), Pesticides. Comment ignorer ce que l’on sait, Paris, Presses de Sciences Po. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/CSO/hal-02959871
• DEDIEU, F. et JOUZEL, J.-N. (2015), « Comment ignorer ce que l’on sait. La domestication des savoirs inconfortables sur les intoxications des agriculteurs par les pesticides », Revue française de sociologie, vol. 56, n°1, p. 105-133. Article ayant fait l’objet d’une traduction en anglais : « How to ignore what one knows. Domesticating uncomfortable knowledge about pesticide poisoning of farmers in France », Revue française de sociologie, vol. 55, no 4, p. 1-27, 2015. https://hal-sciencespo.archives-ouvertes.fr/CSO/hal-01520667
• Brunier, Sylvain, Jean-Noël Jouzel, et Giovanni Prete. « Réparer les vivants plutôt que les torts. L’organisation de la médecine hospitalière et la sous-déclaration des hémopathies professionnelles », Sciences sociales et santé, vol. 40, no. 1, 2022, pp. 5-30. 
• Jouzel, Jean-Noël, et Giovanni Prete. « Exploitants, salariés, riverains, même combat ? La dénonciation des effets des pesticides sur la santé, entre coalition et division », Sociétés contemporaines, vol. 121, no. 1, 2021, pp. 89-110. 

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TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Sciences Po

Risk and expertise: An introduction to the sociology of health and the environment (Master’s programme in Sociology, School of International Affairs)

EHESS

• Health, work, environment: The health effects of industrialisation, from knowledge to recognition (Master’s programme “Knowledge in societies: Health, medicine, and social issues”)

OTHER ACTIVITIES 

• President CID 53 du CNRS, Commission interdisciplinaire « Sciences en société » (2023-...)
• Co-organiser of the CSO’s writing revision seminar (2018 - present)
• Co-leader of the Knowledge, science, and expertise research programme at the CSO (with Renaud Crespin, 2017 - present)
• Member of the Inserm’s expert committee on “Health effects of pesticides” (2018 - 2020)
• Member of Santé publique France’s [French National Public Health Agency] scientific council on “Residents neighbouring farm crops, pesticides and health” (2017 - 2020)
• Member of the High Council for Public Health’s commission on environmental risks (2017 - 2020)
• Appointed member of the INRA (CSS-SESG) scientific commission on economic, social, and management sciences (2015 - 2019)
• Member of the ANSES’ (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) working group "Agricultural workers and pesticides” (2012 - 2016)

EDUCATION

2018
Habilitation (professorial thesis) in Sociology, Sciences Po - Paris (guarantor: Madeleine Akrich)
Dissertation title: “L’usage contrôlé des pesticides. Sociologie d’un mythe d’action publique” [The controlled use of pesticides: Sociology of a public action myth]

2006
PhD in Political Science, UMR 5194 PACTE/Science Po Recherche, Political Studies Institute (IEP) - Grenoble, Pierre Mendès-France University (advisor: Claude Gilbert)
Dissertation title: “Une cause sans conséquences : comparaison des trajectoires politiques des éthers de glycol en France et en Californie” [A cause without consequences: Comparing the political trajectories of glycol ethers in France and California]

2002
DEA (M.Phil) in Political Sociology and Public Policy Analysis, Political Studies Institute (IEP) - Paris (advisor: Pierre Lascoume)

Master’s degree (Magistère) in Modern Humanities, Paris X Nanterre University / École Normale Supérieure - Cachan

Agrégation in Economic and Social Sciences

2000
Master’s degree in Sociology, Paris X Nanterre University / École Normale Supérieure - Cachan

1999
Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Paris X Nanterre University / École Normale Supérieure - Cachan

Professional Background

Research director (2020 - present)