"Pragmatism, as a method to clarify our ideas, can provide useful tools to feminist theories. Among these, standpoint theories claim that knowledge productions are socially situated, and that starting from the standpoint of women provides access to aspects of reality that cannot be captured by dominant groups. In doing so, they assume a relatively ...
Published in Social Science & Medicine (1982)
The COVID-19 pandemic induces a social dilemma: engaging in preventive health behaviors is costly for individuals but generates benefits that also accrue to society at large. The extent to which individuals internalize the social impact of their actions may depend on their prosociality, i.e. the willingness to behave in a way that mostly benefits o...
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Designing incentives for agri-environmental public good provision is a challenge involving trade-offs between environmental ambition and large farmers’ acceptance. When the objective is water quality or biodiversity, critical mass participation and spatial continuity of commitments at the landscape scale are necessary to observe environmental impro...
This paper investigates whether social media can influence the landscape of political protests beyond the size and frequency of protest events. Using early adoption of Twitter at the 2007 South by Southwest (SXSW) festival as a plausibly exogenous source of variation in county-level Twitter penetration, I find that Twitter penetration increases pro...
The Rural Collective Actions are presented with the aim of facing and overcoming difficulties and particularities of the agricultural business, as well as obtaining gains and advantages, in an environment that suffers from constant transformations. This study investigates which reasons determine the choice of the Rural Collective Action model Rural...
Given several bottlenecks in Brazil in distribution logistics, mainly in transport and warehouse activities, some new forms of collective action have appeared. The Condominiums of Rural Warehouses was conceived of to overcome these bottlenecks and provide better income and competitiveness to small producers in agribusiness. This article aims to ana...
À partir de l’étude locale d’un service de l’aide sociale à l’enfance dédié à la prise en charge de mineurs non accompagnés, cet article documente les manières dont la mise en œuvre de partenariats et de collaborations intersectorielles concourt au travail en protection de l’enfance. On montre que c’est à partir de la prise en compte des vulnérabil...
The effectiveness of payment schemes for delivering agri-environmental public goods with provision thresholds (biodiversity, water quality) depends on reaching enough farmland enrolment at the landscape scale. Supporting the development of collaborative approaches with a financial bonus conditioned to a collective element on top of an individual ba...
This chapter focuses on the role of surveillance in the policy process. It promotes a general framework to assess the effectiveness of health surveillance systems from a social science perspective, based on the concept of real governance. Effectiveness of animal health surveillance systems is addressed through the analysis of the gaps between, on t...
