Pesticides

Nataly Botero is Associate Professor in Information and Communication Sciences at the Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France. She works on the media coverage of ecological issues in France.Hélène Ledouble is Associate Professor at the University of Toulon, France. She works in applied linguistics and textual data analysis and is particularly interested in popularizing discourse on environmental issues.François Allard-Huver is Associate Professor in Information and Communication studies at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France, and a researcher at CHUS. He is interested in environmental and health controversies and polemics in the public sphere.

• Author Presentation ixForeword xvEve Bureau-Point And Carole BarthélémyIntroduction xixNataly Botero, Hélène Ledouble And François Allard-HuverChapter 1 Ergotoxicology in Action: Understanding Work-Activity Pesticide Exposures 1Fabienne Goutille, Louis Galey, Clémence Rambaud, Laurence Thery And Alain Garrigou1.1 Introduction 11.2 Ergotoxicology 21.2.1 Characterizing exposure in real work 21.2.2 The participation of working people 41.3 Examples of ergotoxicology applications in agriculture 51.3.1 The contribution of ergotoxicology to field epidemiology in the analysis of pesticide contamination among pesticide farmers 61.3.2 Ergotoxicology’s contribution to understanding situations involving pesticide risk 121.4 Contributions and limits of ergotoxicology to the characterization of pesticide exposure 231.5 References 25Chapter 2 Thinking about Pesticides in Terms of a “Socio-technical Lock-in” of Information 31Jan Smolinski2.1 Introduction 312.2 Communicating using the term pesticide: why and how? 322.2.1 Why communicate about pesticides? 332.2.2 How can we communicate about pesticides? 342.3 Commitments to monitoring the use of plant protection products in the definition of food “quality” 352.3.1 Method for identifying digital devices for guiding food choice 352.3.2 Statistical treatment 362.4 The role of plant protection product use in quality assessment using digital devices 392.4.1 Information “lock-in”: interviews with representatives of the devices 392.5 Initiatives to “unlock information”: the case of Zéro résidu de pesticides and Planet-score 432.5.1 Zéro résidu de pesticides (Zero pesticide residues) 432.5.2 Planet-score 472.6 Conclusion 522.7 References 52Chapter 3 Activist Measures and Legal Levers: An Interview with Dominique Masset 55Nataly Botero, Hélène Ledouble And François Allard-HuverChapter 4 The Globalization of Regulatory Science on Pesticides: History and Effects on European Law 73Annie Martin4.1 Introduction 734.2 Chemical safety ideas and tools promoted worldwide by the OECD 784.2.1 Ideas promoted by the OECD in the chemical sector 784.2.2 Tools developed by the OECD in the chemical sector 804.3 The effects of the OECD’s promotion of chemical safety ideas and tools in European law 834.3.1 The flow of regulatory science from the OECD to the European Union 844.3.2 A regulatory science that produces ignorance 854.4 Conclusion 884.5 References 89Chapter 5 Fighting the Colorado Potato Beetle in Francoist Spain (1939–1953) 97José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez5.1 Introduction 975.2 The technopolitics of pesticides 995.3 Autarky and arsenic pesticides 1015.4 Controlling the Colorado beetle 1025.4.1 The role of agronomists 1045.4.2 Campaigns and resistance: the case of the Burgos province 1065.5 The arrival of DDT 1085.6 Controlling quality, neglecting risk 1105.7 Conclusion 1125.8 References 112Chapter 6 From Pesticides to Thyroid Diseases: Media Coverage of a Nameless Problem 119Estera Badau6.1 Introduction 1196.2 Thyroid diseases: publicization and media coverage 1216.2.1 Perspectives from humanities and social sciences research on thyroid diseases 1236.3 Methodology 1246.3.1 Analytical corpus and methodological aspects 1246.3.2 Analysis method 1266.4 Results: thyroid-disrupting pesticides, a nameless public health problem 1276.4.1 From the difficulty of naming reality… 1276.4.2 …to denouncing conflicts of interest within European public authorities 1316.5 Conclusion 1356.6 References 137Chapter 7 Discursive Strategies of a Sociotechnical Network: The Case of Natural Plant Defense Stimulators 141Antoine Blanchard7.1 Introduction 1417.2 The role of SDNs in the field of plant protection 1427.2.1 Discursive strategies at the service of a sociotechnical network 1437.2.2 Discourse analysis method and corpus 1457.2.3 A hegemonic term 1457.3 Specificity of SDNs in areas of communication 1467.3.1 Study of scientific literature (1994–2008) 1467.3.2 Study of technical and marketing documentation (1997–2007) 1487.3.3 Study of the trade press (1997–2007) 1497.3.4 Study of the daily and weekly press (1997–2007) 1517.3.5 Study of the popular press (1993–2007) 1597.4 A discursive approach separate to that of biopesticides 1607.5 Conclusion 1627.5.1 Discourses to support the SDN sociotechnical network 1627.5.2 A recent trend marked by the rise of biocontrol 1637.6 References 164Chapter 8 Circulation of Discourses and Counter-discourses about Pesticides on Social Networks 169Albin Wagener8.1 Introduction 1698.2 A discursive analysis of corpora 1708.3 Corpus and methodology 1738.4 Analysis results 1768.5 Pesticides, between food and agricultural production 1848.6 A variety of positions 1848.7 Main themes 1878.8 Conclusion 1888.9 References 189List of Authors 193Index 195