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European actors face in building functioning markets and legitimate political institutions are numerous, especially as these objectives relate to calls for responsible innovation, sustainable development and economic stability. This presentation focuses on
the making of the economic and political European space, and argues that the construction of technical entities is an entry point for the analysis of the democratic challenges at the heart of the project of European integration. The case of “sustainable biofuels”
is particularly considered. Describing initiatives aimed to define a European market of “sustainable” biofuels through certifications, I discuss the practical (and contested) meanings of such terms as “harmonization” and “subsidiarity”. I consider in particular
the issue of the calculation of greenhouse gases emissions, and the implementation of a semi-material accounting system expected to ensure the stability of the “sustainable” qualification throughout Europe. Eventually, this perspective is a way of accounting
for the fragile construction of a common European identity, and for the democratic issues that it raises. </font></p>
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<div style="font-size:10pt"><b style="font-family:Tahoma; font-size:16px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'">Biography:</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> </font></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Brice
Laurent is a researcher at the Center for the Sociology of Innovation (CSI) of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Using approaches based on Science and Technology Studies, his work studies the construction of political spaces through the analysis of sites (within
regulatory, standardization or expertise arenas) where scientific objectivity and democratic legitimacy are questioned. Brice Laurent graduated from the Ecole des Mines and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and was hired as a State engineer
by the French public administration in 2005. He joined CSI in 2008, where he wrote his PhD dissertation on nanotechnology (<i>Democracies on trial. Assembling nanotechnology and its problems).</i></font></span></div>
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