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100	1	0	_aClaeys, Cécilia _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Sérandour, Julien _eauthor
245	0	0	_aAnthropocentrism/Biocentrism: Learning from Mosquitoes, an Interdisciplinary Sociology-Biology Perspective
260			_c2009.
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520			_aBased on an interdisciplinary analysis associating sociology and biology, this paper studies the social discourses and practices concerning mosquitoes and mosquito pest management in France. The qualitative and quantitative sociological field studies involved two areas, the Rhone river delta and the French alpine valleys. Recalling the anthropocentric heritage of our western societies, our paper shows an evolution, linked to recent social changes, towards more biocentric references, a fact that is noticeable in discourses and attitudes toward mosquitoes. Rather than a radical switch, processes of cohabitation and hybridizing may be observed, combining popular and scientific knowledge, environmental, medical and social issues. The first part of this paper highlights the social and biological relationships between the insect and its habitat, i.e., wetlands. The second part focuses on the forms of articulation between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, especially through the dualism pest/useful insect. The third and last part analyses how the “taxonomic arrangements ” between anthropocentrism and biocentrism have triggered an evolution of French public policies regarding mosquito pest management.
690			_ainterdisciplinarity
690			_asociology
690			_amosquito
690			_abiology
690			_awetlands
786	0		_nNatures Sciences Sociétés | 17 | 2 | 2009-03-01 | p. 136-144 | 1240-1307
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-natures-sciences-societes-2009-2-page-136?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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