Science at UM [S02-ep21]: Living with industrial pollution
This week on A l’UM la science, Christelle Gramaglia, sociologist at the G-Eau laboratory, presents her book Habiter la pollution industrielle. Expériences et métrologies citoyennes de la contamination(Living with industrial pollution: Citizen experiences and measurements of contamination). A program broadcast on Divergence FM 93.9 every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Today, we look back on a memory. It was in Rouen on the night of September 25-26, 2019, when a major fire broke out at the Lubrizol factory, classified as Seves (France Info), immediately reviving the painful trauma of AZF. That night, 5,000 tons of chemicals went up in smoke under the incredulous and horrified gaze of the factory's neighbors. This was a stark reminder of the threat posed by the chemical industry. But what about sites where no disaster attracts attention? How do you go about your daily life when you live near polluting industries? How do you coexist with these potentially toxic chemical residues? What strategies do we develop—or fail to develop—to protect ourselves? And why do we stay in these dangerous areas? These are some of the questions our guest has explored through a series of unprecedented investigations in France, Spain, and Portugal. Christelle Gramaglia is a sociologist at INRAE in the G-eau laboratory. She has studied the social and ecological consequences of these chronic contaminations and presents her findings in an original and fascinating book entitled Habiter la pollution industrielle. Expériences et métrologies citoyennes de la contamination (Living with industrial pollution: Citizen experiences and measurements of contamination), published by Presse des Mines in January 2023.
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