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berenice.r.girard@uis.no
Bérénice Girard is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research focuses on environmental policies and their actors in contemporary India. She defended her PhD in sociology at EHESS Paris in July 2019. Her thesis, “The Engineers, the River and the State: The Role and Place of Engineers in the Management of the Ganges,” was awarded the 2020 French Academic Network on Asian Studies PhD Award. Her current research focuses on the role of small and medium enterprises in solar rollout. She is particularly interested in the discourses, perspectives, and work practices of solar entrepreneurs, and their role in shaping the transition to low-carbon energies at the local and regional levels. She conducts fieldwork in the state of Rajasthan in India and in the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France.
RCC Research Project: From River Management to Solar Rollout: Environmental Policies and Their Actors in Contemporary India
Selected Publications:
- “Public Civil Engineering, an Expertise from the Past? Insights from a Contested Public Utility in a Time of Reforms.” In Engineers and Society in India from c.1850 to Present Times, edited by Vanessa Caru. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- with Emmanuelle Guillou. “Mini-Grids at the Interface: The Deployment of Mini-Grids in Urbanizing Localities of the Global South.” Journal of Urban Technology (forthcoming).
- “Un ingénieur contre l’exploitation hydraulique. G. D. Agrawal et la lutte pour la protection du Gange.” In Les Mondes de l’ingénieur en Inde (xixe-xxie siècle), edited by Roland Lardinois and Charles Gadéa, 197–220. Paris: Garnier Flammarion, 2022.
- “Gérer des infrastructures dysfonctionnelles. Les ingénieurs et techniciens en charge des infrastructures d’assainissement à Bénarès.” Tracés: Revue de Sciences Humaines 35, (2018): https://doi.org/10.4000/traces.8347.