Quand l’identité de l’objet-frontière se construit chemin faisant
In this article, we confront the boundary-object model proposed by Star and Griesemer with an exemplary case of coordination between the nature management world and the academic research world: the production of an estimation of the wolves’ number in France. In a first section, we show that this pro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Société d'Anthropologie des Connaissances
2009-03-01
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| Series: | Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rac/18257 |
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| Summary: | In this article, we confront the boundary-object model proposed by Star and Griesemer with an exemplary case of coordination between the nature management world and the academic research world: the production of an estimation of the wolves’ number in France. In a first section, we show that this production constitutes a collective activity, orchestrated by a nature manager: the national Office for Hunting and Wildlife, and involving several actors, including research laboratories. We present these actors and precise their motivations and their role in the treatment chain of the wolf presence material signs collected on the field. We observe that the coordination between these actors does not prevent them from maintaining their own practices and aims. In the second section, we show that this coordination relies on a boundary-object – the wolf “hair” – and more precisely on its equipment (codes, conventions) during the various stages of its treatment: “invisible infrastructures” are indeed attached to the wolf “hair”, that are transported and transformed with him, enabling its inscription in various practice communities and, finally, the production of a quantitative estimation of the wolves’ number in France. |
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| ISSN: | 1760-5393 |