Frédérique BLOT

Lecturer in Geography

Contact details

Address
Maison de la Recherche de l'Université Jean Jaurès 5, Allées A. Machado - 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 1
Phone
05 63 48 19 14
Email
frederique.blot@univ-jfc.fr
Personal Website
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frederique-Blot-2

Research topics

My work focuses primarily on socio-natural relationships, examining issues related to the management of “natural resources” and “natural hazards” in relation to public policy and the production of scientific knowledge. My research focuses specifically on relationships with hydrosystems (rivers, streams, ponds, wetlands, and groundwater) in Europe (France and Spain) and Latin America (Venezuela, Chile, and Mexico).

My approach is relational. Within this framework, I view relationships as social constructs and consider them to be eminently “political” (M. Foucault). This involves, among other things, understanding the historical processes through which “natural” components are defined, processes that rely on the political articulation between the domains of knowledge and practice at various spatial levels (from the local to the global). This approach is rooted in the spirit of critical geography: a geography of power (Raffestin, 1980) closely aligned with political ecology.


 

Organization of seminars, conferences, and summer schools.

Participation in conferences, study days, workshops, and seminars

Publications extraites de HAL affiliées à Geode : Géographie de l'environnement

Additional information

Activités d'édition, coordination d'ouvrages :

  • Membre du comité de pilotage (scientifique et organisation) du Dictionnaire critique de l’anthropocène, Ed. CNRS, sept. 2019.
  • Federico Arenas Vásquez*, Frédérique Blot**, Cristian Henríquez Ruiz*, Anne Peltier**, coord n°spécial ORDA, n°225, Inégalités environnementales dans les Amériques     
  • * Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chili       
  • ** Laboratoire GEODE, UMR 5602 CNRS, Université de Toulouse, France
  • Philippe Béringuier, Frédérique Blot, Anne Rivière-Honegger (coord.), Les SHS et les questions environnementales. manières de voir, manières de faire, n°96, Sciences de la Société.
  • Philippe Béringuier, Frédérique Blot, Bertrand Desailly, Mehdi Saqalli [eds.] (2015), Environnement, politiques publiques et pratiques locales, Paris, L'Harmattan, 559 p.
 

Thèse de doctorat :

 
Frédérique Blot (2005), Discours et pratiques autour du “développement durable” et des “ressources en eau”. Une approche relationnelle appliquée aux bassins d’Adour-Garonne et du Segura