Book
French
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Abstract
National audience, mobilising research carried out in different countries, this book gives us a better understanding of large-scale socio-technical systems and their connection with public policies. I have been attracted by networking networks of stakeholders, collective representations, innovation processes, scientific dynamics as well as agricultural practices. This book also tells us about how agronomists’ thoughts have evolved over the last quarter of the 20th century to the present day, and how they relate to agricultural practice and innovation. In this postface, I will add my view of agronomist to that of the sociologists, anthropologists, historians and geographers who have collaborated in the various chapters. I will try to highlight in the first part the role played by arable crops in building modern agronomy; in the second part, I wonder about the relationship between innovation and major cultural change. I will try to identify, wherever possible, the benefits of collaboration between agronomy and the humanities and social sciences, in order to understand ongoing developments and, where appropriate, to act with a view to influencing them.