Isabelle Bruno
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After a PhD in sociology of international relations at Sciences Po Paris in 2006, Isabelle Bruno has joined the following year the University of Lille as an associate professor in political science (Lille Center for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society, CERAPS-CNRS). After studying benchmarking as a technique for intergovernmental coordination within the European Union, she explored its genealogy during a research fellowship at Cornell University (2010) and then extended her work to the sociology of quantification and the activist uses of statistics ("statactivism"). Since 2014, she has been conducting a new cycle of research on socio-spatial and socio-environmental inequalities, which she is addressing through the study of conflicts over coastal appropriation. After an initial research with sociologist Gregory Salle on the Pampelonne Bay in the Saint-Tropez peninsula, she was invited to UC Berkeley to conduct a study on California’s coastal access policies, funded by a Fulbright scholarship (2017). It was on this occasion that she discovered the "Martin’s Beach case", about which she is currently writing her thesis for an accreditation to supervise research.
2020-2021 : Residential Fellow at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA de Nantes)
2020/2021-2026 : Junior Member of the Academic Institute of France (Institut Universitaire de France, IUF)