Lucile TRUFFY

My PhD thesis focuses on polyethylene and its famous alter ego, the plastic bag, in late 20th-century France. Their emergence and subsequent triumph in retail and domestic consumption transformed commercial and social practices, and lay at the heart of a ‘plastic age’. However, polyethylene also epitomised the ‘throwaway society’, which can now be observed on a sedimentary level. By combining economic and environmental history to examine this multifaceted material revolution, my research aims to fill a historiographical lacuna surrounding plastics, and to shed a new light on consumer society from the aftermath of the Second World War to the early 21st century.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Since 2024: PhD candidate at the Centre for History at Sciences Po

2024: Agrégation in history, rank: 13

2023: Master's degree in history at Sciences Po, summa cum laude

BOOK

C’est Formica, c’est formidable ! Une histoire d’entreprise (1951-1983), Paris, Ithaka, 2024 (à paraître)