Mapping the French academic landscape: A historical perspective

Pierre Cornu is Director of Research in the History of the Present at INRAE and Director of the UMR Territoires in Clermont-Ferrand, a multi-disciplinary research unit that focuses on transitions (in agriculture, food, mobility, etc.) through territorial issues.

As a specialist in the intersection of science, agriculture, the environment and public policy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Pierre Cornu’s research is both interdisciplinary and collaborative, with the aim of shedding light on the singular status of temporality in the Anthropocene. His publications include La systémique agraire à l’Inra, histoire d’une dissidence, Quae, 2021 and “Un historien en interdisciplinarité. Essai d’épistémologie située”, Natures sciences sociétés, 2023, https://doi.org/ 10.1051/nss/2023016