ANIMAL'S LAB – Animals: innovations and living work

Understanding the role of work in our relations with animals and with nature and to evaluate its impacts in terms of technical and social innovations.

Objective

The group’s overall objective is to study the work of living beings in organizations, to support and generate innovation processes in the different sectors studied (breeding, agriculture, entertainment, care, food, etc.) with the actors concerned (professionals and their animals; economic, societal and political bodies). The work of living beings concerns primarily domesticated animals as also plants, insects and bacteria covered by hypothesis, by default, by metaphor or by analogy in the field of work, most often by the professionals themselves.

Research topics

  • Exclusion of animals from work. Transformation of food systems; innovations to replace animals with plants, and animals and plants with substitutes from cellular agriculture. Transformation of production systems: substitution of animal labour by robots or humans.
  • Inclusion of animals in work. Innovations and urban animal husbandry; animal work in the city
  • Work in organizations: organization of work/end of work, end of life
  • Measurement of value of work (economic, social, moral, etc.) and impacts on innovation processes
  • Work theory and living work
  • Agroecology: the work of animals, plants and micro-organisms. The work of living beings and the making of agricultural territories

Network

Inter unit:

Céline Vial (economist, UMR MoISA)
Antoine Doré (sociologist, UMR AGIR, Toulouse)

Other structures:

Jean Estebanez (geographer UPEC, Créteil)
Marlène Lagard (PhD student in geography, UPEC)
Nicolas Lainé (anthropologist, laboratory of social anthropology)
Maan Barua (geographer, Cambridge University)
Sophie Nicod (Blondeau School)