FOURNIER Pierre
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Professor of sociology at the University of Aix-Marseille, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Sociology Department: urban and environmental issues, introduction to fieldwork, epistemology of the social sciences, reflection on interdisciplinarity in the social sciences.
Functions
Appointed member of the CNRS National Committee, section 36 (since 2021)
Director of the Mediterranean Sociology Laboratory, UMR 7305, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence (2018-2020)
Elected member of the board of Doctoral School 355 "Spaces, Cultures, Societies" (2016-2019)
Areas of research
industries with environmental challenges (energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals) and their regions
the interplay of social stratification linking work, residence and generations, particularly at local level
epistemology and methodology of social science research: inductive approach, field research, direct observation methods, video-elicitation interviews, use of audiovisual archives, combining ethnography and history
Doctoral supervision
as part of Ecole doctorale 355 Espaces, cultures, sociétés :
– Elise Lévêque (co-directed with Isabelle Blöss-Widmer)
Scientific coordinator, programme manager
co-hosted with Maurice Olive (Mesopolhis) and Irène Xueref-Remy (Imbe) from the research programme HyFlex on the place of socio-political risks and environmental risks in the formulation of energy transition projects using hydrogen on a territorial scale, funded by the Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Transition and the ANR (since 2023)
co-host with Philippe Aldrin (Mesopolhis) of the transverse axis Images and social sciences of the laboratory (since 2021)
Productions
Notebooks Hypothesis
– Nuclear (to accompany the publication of the book Working in the nuclear industry)
– Medicines (to accompany the publication of the book Drug workers)
Audiovisual production
- interactive documentary From fiction to science. An experiment in video elicitation as a way out of an impeded speech situationproduced with Pascal Cesaro, 2019, from 45 to 85 mins.
- documentary film In the footsteps of the atomists. A step aside for a sociologist in the fieldproduced with Pascal Cesaro, 2016, 85 mins, to be found in the "extras" section of the interactive documentary above.
List of publications on HAL
Article in a magazine
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Vidéo-élicitation et parole empêchée dans le nucléaire : Interview by Joyce Sebag and Jean-Pierre Durand. Nouvelle Revue du travail, 2023, 23, pp.211-231. ⟨10.4000/nrt.14340⟩. ⟨halshs-04307599⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. The resources of cinematographic art to plunge into the heart of the ethnographic approach. Revue française des méthodes visuelles, 2023, 7. ⟨hal-04182452⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. L'écriture fictionnalisée du documentaire Reprise: un modèle d'investigation pour les sciences sociales? Images du travail, travail des images, 2021, La fiction au travail, 10. ⟨halshs-03178326⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier, Christophe Lamotte. Nord Paradis, an unlikely film in Christophe Lamotte's career. And an unlikely medium for training in social science fieldwork? Images du travail, travail des images, 2021, La fiction au travail, 10. ⟨halshs-03178392⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Fiction at work. Research and research training using fictional images (cinema, television or Web). Images du travail, travail des images, 2021, La fiction au travail, 10. ⟨halshs-03178435⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Suscitar a palavra a partir de imagens de ficção: uma questão de ciência pública ou de arte pública? Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, 2020, Arte pública para a comunicação turística, 7 (1), pp.243-255. ⟨10.21814/rlec.2213⟩. ⟨halshs-02885054⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Raising the word from images of fiction: a matter of public science or public art? Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais, 2020, Arte pública para a comunicação turística, 7 (1), pp.243-255. ⟨10.21814/rlec.2213⟩. ⟨halshs-02884317⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Stimulating reflection using fictional images. A new form of public science or public art? Culture et recherche, 2020, Recherche culturelle et sciences participatives, 140, pp.38-39. ⟨halshs-02491537⟩
Pierre Fournier, Pascal Cesaro. The resources of fiction for interviewing. Or how to limit the risk of imposing questioning on respondents that is alien to them. Sociologie, 2020, 11 (4), pp.415-432. ⟨halshs-03045573⟩
Pierre Fournier. In memoriam Jean-Claude Chamboredon (1938-2020). Sociologie, 2020, 11 (4), pp.339-341. ⟨halshs-03045594⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Focusing on work to dramatise the nuclear world in the 1960s: a television-truth or propaganda operation? Images du travail, travail des images, 2017, Dossier " Le travail à l'écran : mise en scène des groupes professionnels par les media ", n°5. ⟨halshs-01664878⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba, Séverin Muller. Low-skilled workers in the "Knowledge Based-Economy": The Case of the Pharmaceutical Sector in France and Belgium. Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali, 2017, 7 (14), pp.41-57. ⟨10.13128/cambio-22910⟩. ⟨halshs-01767171⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba, Séverin Muller. Collective investigations Investigating in a restive environment. The pharmaceutical industry under collective observation. Ethnographiques.org : online journal of the humanities and social sciences, 2016, Collective Investigations, 32. ⟨halshs-01361959⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. From fiction to science. Mobilising a 1960s television soap opera to talk differently about work in the nuclear industry. Images du travail, travail des images, 2015, 1 (1). ⟨halshs-01312604⟩
Joseph Cacciari, Rodolphe Dodier, Pierre Fournier, Ghislaine Gallenga, Annie Lamanthe. "Observing the energy transition from below. L'exemple des acteurs du bassin minier de Provence". Métropolitiques, 2014, http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Observer-la-transition-energetique.html. ⟨halshs-01162401⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cesare Mattina. Help or hindrance to public action? Local elected representatives confronting the State in mono-industrial territories at risk. Sciences de la société : Les cahiers du LERASS, 2013, L'Etat et ses territoires, 90, pp.128-148. ⟨10.4000/sds.608⟩. ⟨halshs-01116818⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba. "Knowledge economy" and low employment status. No contraindication in the pharmaceutical sector. Savoir/Agir, 2011, pp.23-29. ⟨10.3917/sava.016.0023⟩. ⟨hal-00985081⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba. Small business, great dependence. Pharmacies between public authorities and industry. Revue française des affaires sociales, 2007, Le médicament, 3-4, pp.211-231. ⟨10.3917/rfas.073.0211⟩. ⟨halshs-03264993⟩
Pierre Fournier. The sex and age of the ethnographer: enlightening for the respondent, constraining for the interviewer. Ethnographiques.org : revue en ligne de sciences humaines et sociales, 2006, 11. ⟨halshs-03264986⟩
Pierre Fournier. Une industrie nouvelle en zone rurale: de la fabrique d'une main-d'œuvre à la fabrique de destins sociaux territorialisés? Cahiers d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales, 2005, 76, pp.71-92. ⟨hal-01201105⟩
Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. What time frame should be used to analyse land speculation? L'haussmannisation de la rue de la République à Marseille. Les Cahiers du Centre de recherches historiques, 2001, 26, pp.173-188. ⟨10.4000/ccrh.1523⟩. ⟨hal-01220542⟩
Pierre Fournier. Beware of the dangers! Enquête sur le travail dans le nucléaire. Ethnologie française, 2001, Terrains minés, XXXI (1), pp.69-80. ⟨halshs-03264892⟩
Pierre Fournier. Les "kamikazes" du nucléaire: un même mot pour une réalité qui change. Sociétés contemporaines, 2000, 39, pp.135-152. ⟨halshs-03264819⟩
Pierre Fournier. Two views on working-class labour. A propos de Roy et Burawoy, 1945-1975. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 1996, 115 (1), pp.80-93. ⟨halshs-03264809⟩
Pierre Fournier. Observations under surveillance. Genèses. Sciences sociales et histoire, 1996, 24, pp.103 - 119. ⟨10.3406/genes.1996.1402⟩. ⟨halshs-03264725⟩
Publications
Cesare Mattina, Elisabetta Bini, Barbara Curli, Pierre Fournier (Dir.). Territories of energy transitions. Nuclear and renewable energies in Italy and France. Karthala; Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, pp.352, 2023, Atelier méditerranéen, Emmanuelle Chapron Le Bianic, 978-2-38409-022-8. ⟨halshs-04123611⟩
Philippe Aldrin, Pierre Fournier, Vincent Geisser, Yves Mirman (Dir.). Investigation in danger. Towards a new surveillance regime in the social sciences. Armand Colin, 379 p., 2022, 978-2-200-63324-0. ⟨hal-03521685⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. Direct observation. Armand Colin, 128 p, 2021, Coll. 128, EAN 9782200631246. ⟨halshs-03331189⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. Direct observation. Armand Colin, 128 p., 2015, Collection 128, 9782200601737. ⟨halshs-01174856⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba, Séverin Muller (Dir.). Drug workers. The pharmaceutical industry under observation. Eres, Coll. Clinique du travail, 338 p., 2014, Yves Clot and Dominique Lhuilier, 978-2-7492-4278-1. ⟨halshs-01162396⟩
Pierre Fournier. Working in the nuclear industry. An investigation into the heart of a high-risk site. Armand Colin, 231 p., 2012, Collection Sociétales, 972-2-200-27650-8. ⟨halshs-01116741⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. L'enquête et ses méthodes : l'observation directe. Armand Colin, 128 p., 2010, Collection 128. ⟨halshs-00005637⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Yves Cohen, Pierre Fournier, Nicolas Hatzfeld, Cédric Lomba, et al. (Dir.). Observer le travail : histoire, ethnographie, approches combinées. Paris: La Découverte, pp.352, 2008. ⟨halshs-00404852⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. L'enquête et ses méthodes : l'observation directe. Armand Colin, 128 p., 2005, coll. 128. ⟨hal-04182512⟩
Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella (Dir.). Marseille, between city and ports. Les destins de la rue de la République. La Découverte, Recherches series, 2004. ⟨halshs-01175700⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. L'enquête et ses méthodes: l'observation directe. Nathan, 128 p., 1999, coll. 128. ⟨hal-04182518⟩
Book chapter
Pierre Fournier. Living with nuclear power: promises tempered by major uncertainties. Les territoires des transitions énergétiques. Nucléaire et énergies renouvelables en Italie et en France, Karthala; Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, pp.151-177, 2023, Atelier méditerranéen, 978-2-38409-022-8. ⟨halshs-04123659⟩
Elisabetta Bini, Barbara Curli, Pierre Fournier, Cesare Mattina. For a localised socio-history of energy transitions. Les territoires des transitions énergétiques. Nucléaire et énergies renouvelables en Italie et en France, Karthala; Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme, pp.13-36, 2023, 978-2-38409-022-8. ⟨halshs-04123636⟩
Philippe Aldrin, Pierre Fournier, Vincent Geisser, Yves Mirman. Field researcher: a profession whose autonomy is under threat. L'enquête en danger. Vers un nouveau régime de surveillance dans les sciences sociales, Armand Colin, pp.23-52, 2022, 978-2-200-63324-0. ⟨halshs-03585582⟩
Pierre Fournier. Investigating nuclear power under the eye of gatekeepers and peers. From epistemological vigilance to political surveillance. L'enquête en danger. Vers un nouveau régime de surveillance dans les sciences sociales, Armand Colin, pp.219-236, 2022, 978-2-200-63324-0. ⟨halshs-03586528⟩
Pierre Fournier. From intra-national relocation to a refusal of international relocation. Sisteron between soaps and medicines. Mauve Carbonell, Xavier Daumalin, Ivan Kharaba, Olivier Lambert, Olivier Raveux. Industrie entre Méditerranée et Europe, Presses universitaires de Provence, pp.309-324, 2019. ⟨halshs-02292916⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. How to avoid the imposition of a problematic in sociological interview research? The resources of video-elicitation using fictional images. Javier Herrero y Milena Trenta. Actas del X Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social. Conferencia Métodos visuales y metodologías en las investigaciones sobre comunicación, Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social, pp.1788-1794, 2018, ⟨10.4185/cac155⟩. ⟨halshs-02116291⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Soap operas supported by ministries: entertainment television for a policy of edification. Bernard Papin, Myriam Tsikounas. Fictions sérielles au temps de la RTF et de l'ORTF, L'Harmattan, pp.73-93, 2018, 978-2-343-15826-6. ⟨halshs-01948298⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba, Séverin Muller. Los empleos poco calificados de la "Economía del conocimiento": El caso del sector farmacéutico en Europa. Guillermo Pérez Sosto. ¿Cuál es el futuro del trabajo? De la división social del trabajo al auge de la precariedad, Aulas y Andamios-Ciccus, pp.343-358, 2018, 978-987-159-789-5. ⟨halshs-02120070⟩
Laurence Americi, Pierre Fournier, Mathieu Leborgne, Cesare Mattina. Bilateral transactions rather than public debate. Pollution without waves around an isolated industrial establishment (Saint-Auban, 1916-2008). Laura Centemeri; Xavier Daumalin. Industrial pollution and Mediterranean spaces. XVIIIe-XXIe siècle, Karthala, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'Homme, pp.69-94, 2015, 978-2-8111-1239-4. ⟨halshs-01194449⟩
Joseph Cacciari, Pierre Fournier. The "energy transition" for a former coal town. Between imperative and political opportunism. Zelem Marie-Christine; Beslay Christophe. Sociologie de l'énergie. Gouvernance et pratiques sociales, CNRS éditions, pp.149-156, 2015. ⟨halshs-01238633⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba. Pharmacies: a small business under influence. Pierre Fournier; Cédric Lomba; Séverin Muller. Les Travailleurs du médicament. L'industrie pharmaceutique sous observation, Eres, pp.275-298, 2014, 978-2-74924278-1. ⟨halshs-01312607⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cédric Lomba, Séverin Muller. Introduction and Conclusion. Fournier; Pierre and Lomba; Cédric and Muller; Séverin. Les travailleurs du médicament : l'industrie pharmaceutique sous observation, Erès, pp.7-25 and 321-328, 2014, Clinique du travail, 978-2-7492-4278-1. ⟨hal-01508308⟩
Pierre Fournier. From soap to big pharma: entering the regulatory rent economy. Pierre Fournier; Cédric Lomba; Séverin Muller. Les Travailleurs du médicament. L'industrie pharmaceutique sous observation, Eres, pp.131-152, 2014, 978-2-74924278-1. ⟨halshs-01312605⟩
Anne-Marie Arborio, Pierre Fournier. Why read the Hobo today? Preface to the French reprint. Nels Anderson. The Hobo. Sociologie du sans-abri, Armand Colin, pp.3-21, 2011. ⟨halshs-00598300⟩
Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. A bourgeois building for second-rate elites. Pierre Fournier; Sylvie Mazzella. Marseille, entre ville et ports. les destins de la rue de la République, La Découverte, pp.103-113, 2004. ⟨hal-01222044⟩
Marion Pierre, Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. From the district to the street, a battered respectability. Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. Marseille, entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la République, La Découverte, pp.288-300, 2004. ⟨hal-01222094⟩
Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. The original breakthrough: between urban development, social transformation and financial profitability. Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. Marseille entre ville et ports. Les destins de la rue de la république, La Découverte, pp.29-39, 2004. ⟨hal-01222029⟩
Pierre Fournier, Sylvie Mazzella. The Haussmannisation of the rue de la République in Marseille: the failure of land speculation? A. Donzel. Métropolisation, gouvernance et citoyenneté dans la région urbaine marseillaise, Maisonneuve et Larose, pp.387-403, 2001. ⟨hal-01222019⟩
Presentation at a conference
Pierre Fournier. Obstructed field research here and there? Cercle des chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient Study Day: "Being a researcher on the Middle East: mission impossible?", Sep 2022, Paris, France. ⟨halshs-03779630⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Making atomists talk. A look back at the film In the Footsteps of the Atomists. From image to speech, from speech to image. "Elicitation interview and self-confrontation in the social sciences: tools, films, witnesses, Dec 2021, Evry, France. ⟨halshs-03513279⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. "You don't often see people like that in films about work". Sociology's classifications put to the image test. Congrès 2019 de l'Association française de sociologie, on the theme Classer, déclasser, reclasser, Aug 2019, Aix-en-Provence, France. ⟨halshs-02275472⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Video-elicitation put to the test of realist fiction: for a practical sociology of biographical experiences. 144th congress of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, on the theme Le réel & le virtuel, May 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨halshs-02275465⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. How to avoid the imposition of a problematic in sociological interview research? The resources of video-elicitation based on fictional images. X Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social. Conferencia Métodos visuales y metodologías en las investigaciones sobre comunicación, Sociedad Latina de Comunicación Social, Dec 2018, Tenerife, Spain. ⟨halshs-02120067⟩
Pierre Fournier. Why did we have to wait so long for a meeting of science and technology with the social sciences about energy? Energy: Challenges and Prospects. 10th Anniversary Conferences of IMéRA, Raouf Boucekkine, Nov 2018, Marseille, France. ⟨halshs-02513944⟩
Pierre Fournier, Cesare Mattina. Industrial capitalism in low-density territories and urbanity in the countryside. Biennale de l'urbain et des territoires, Réseau thématique n°9 de l'Association française de sociologie, Oct 2018, Marseille, France. ⟨halshs-02513953⟩
Pierre Fournier, Christian Grisolia, Thierry Orsiere. How can interdisciplinarity be used to assess the toxicity to humans of nanometric particles that do not yet exist? The example of tritiated tungsten dust, which will be produced in the nuclear fusion machines of the future. Contaminations, environment, health and society: from risk assessment to public action, Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir (CERTOP); Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Jul 2018, Toulouse, France. ⟨halshs-02513975⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. On the Traces of the Atomists: A Sidestep for a Sociological Field Researcher. Visualizing the political process. International visual sociology association. 36th annual conference, Université d'Evry Paris-Saclay, Jun 2018, Evry, France. ⟨halshs-02513999⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Screening and discussion of the film Sur les traces des atomistes. A step aside for a sociologist in the field. International colloquium Ethnographies and commitments. Ethnographies plurielles #7, University of Rouen Normandie, Nov 2017, Rouen, France. ⟨halshs-02514009⟩
Pierre Fournier. What to expect from an encounter with social sciences about energy?. XVIIIes journées internationales de thermique, University of Monastir, Oct 2017, Monastir, Tunisia. ⟨halshs-02514015⟩
Béatrice Cointe, Pierre Fournier. Projected research: going through interdisciplinary projects to analyse the reorganisation of public research funding. Seventh Congress of the French Sociology Association, Jul 2017, Amiens, France. ⟨hal-02512650⟩
Pierre Fournier, Pascal Cesaro. "Les Atomistes", a non-singular witness to a production of entertainment serials for citizen television (1967-1968). international colloquium Feuilletons et séries diffusés sur les écrans de la RTF et de l'ORTF (1949-1974), Université Paris 3, Jun 2017, Paris, France. ⟨halshs-02514020⟩
Joseph Cacciari, Pierre Fournier, Rodolphe Dodier, Annie Lamanthe, Ghislaine Gallenga. The energy transition at the foot of the Gardanne slag heaps. The Energy Transition: Real issues, false starts? Oct 2013, Lyon, France. ⟨hal-01242332⟩
Joseph Cacciari, Pierre Fournier. From 'fuel poverty' to social inequalities in energy consumption: Gardanne's working classes and the local energy transition. Rencontre des lauréats de l'Observatoire Hommes-Milieux du Bassin Minier de Provence, Jun 2013, Gardanne, France. ⟨hal-04622611⟩
Science blog article
Philippe Aldrin, Pierre Fournier, Yves Mirman, Vincent Geisser. Research prevented... When university autonomy threatens the autonomy of academics. 2022. ⟨halshs-04064024⟩
N°spécial de revue/special issue
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. Fiction at work. Images du travail, travail des images, 10, 2021. ⟨halshs-03178446⟩
Other scientific publication
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. From fiction to science. A video-elicitation experiment to get out of a situation where speech is prevented. 2019. ⟨halshs-02492184⟩
Pascal Cesaro, Pierre Fournier. In the footsteps of the atomists. A step sideways for a sociologist in the field. 2016. ⟨halshs-02492128⟩