Virtual Event – New (French) Voices on Pollution and Environmental Justice

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New (French) Voices on Pollution and Environmental Justice

4 October 2024 – 12:30-14:00 CET – Zoom

Environmental History Today Webinar Series 2024-2025 – European Society for Environmental History

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In this session, four early-career researchers (doctoral students and recent graduates) based in France will share their research on pollution and/or environmental justice. Lucile Truffy, a doctoral student at Sciences-Po, will share her work on the history of plastics; Eugénie Clément, who is about to defend her thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), will present her anthropological and historical research on the environmental struggles of the Navajo nation in the US. Dr Yaël Gagnepain, who defended his PhD at the university of Lille in 2023, will introduce his work on the pollution and flooding caused by the discharges of Roubaix’s textile industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. Finally, Dr Louis Fagon, a recent EHESS PhD, will tell us more about the nuclearization of the Rhône River from the 1970s to the 1990s.

The history of pollution and environmental justice are two themes that were pioneered in France by Professor Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud, author (among other publications) of Histoire de la pollution industrielle : France, 1789-1914 (2010) and Environmental and Social Justice in the City: historical perspectives (2011, with Richard Rodger) and former president of ESEH. By celebrating the research pursued in these two subfields by “new voices”, we want to acknowledge her important role in opening up new areas of studies for scholars in France and elsewhere.

This will also be the opportunity to present the book recently published in her honor: Le Chemin, La rive et L’usine: Faire de l’histoire environnementale avec Geneviève Massard-Guilbaud (Presses des Mines, 2023).

Speakers: Eugénie Clément (EHESS, Mondes Américains/CENA), Dr. Louis Fagon (EHESS/Université Paris Nanterre), Dr. Yaël Gagnepain (ENS, CERES), Lucile Truffy (Sciences Po Paris)

Chair: Dr Elsa Devienne (Northumbria University/regional representative for France at ESEH)

New (French) Voices on Pollution and Environmental Justice - ESEH webinar

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