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Valentin Brochet-Fernandez
Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and GeographyContact details
- Address
- Maison de la Recherche Jean Jaurès University 5, Allées A. Machado - 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 9
- Office
- C231
- Phone
- 06 60 21 18 16
- valentin.brochet-fernandez@univ-tlse2.fr
- Personal Website
- https://valentinbrochet.wixsite.com/valentinbrochet
Research topics
My research focuses on anthropology, geography, and the philosophy of the environment and living things—specifically, the connections we forge between beings from a perspective that extends beyond the human. I integrate my fieldwork with artistic creation through illustration, sound design, and photography.
"Ethnographie comparative des mondes naturalistes – arpentage du territoire, Épistémologie et mobilisation politique en contexte d'extinction".
My work explores how naturalist practices can be understood as existing at the intersection of scientific practices and practices rooted in sensory experience. I conduct my fieldwork among amateur naturalists—whom I consider “experts” interested in various taxonomic groups—with the aim of understanding the nature of the relationships they maintain with the subjects of their devotion, and how these subjects—be they feathered, scaled, or leafy creatures—transform, through their otherness, the naturalists’ “education of attention.”
Related research :
- "Nécrosystèmes charognards - reconfiguration du soin aux cadavres non-humains en présence des vautours".
I am conducting fieldwork in philosophy on how vultures reshape farmers’ attitudes toward death and their funeral and post-mortem practices in the Cantal region. Drawing on a multi-species ethnography and a mapping of the actors involved in the decomposition of corpses—both human and non-human—I seek to trace what might be called “necrosystems,” multi-scalar spaces of care for corpses, and by extension, care for ecosystems.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS :
Thesis :"Ethnographie comparative des mondes naturalistes – arpentage du territoire, Épistémologie et mobilisation politique en contexte d'extinction".
Ph.D. supervised by Vanessa Manceron (LESC - UMR 7186, Paris Nanterre) and Ruppert Vimal (GEODE - UMR 5602, UT2J).
My work explores how naturalist practices can be understood as existing at the intersection of scientific practices and practices rooted in sensory experience. I conduct my fieldwork among amateur naturalists—whom I consider “experts” interested in various taxonomic groups—with the aim of understanding the nature of the relationships they maintain with the subjects of their devotion, and how these subjects—be they feathered, scaled, or leafy creatures—transform, through their otherness, the naturalists’ “education of attention.” Related research :
- "Nécrosystèmes charognards - reconfiguration du soin aux cadavres non-humains en présence des vautours".
I am conducting fieldwork in philosophy on how vultures reshape farmers’ attitudes toward death and their funeral and post-mortem practices in the Cantal region. Drawing on a multi-species ethnography and a mapping of the actors involved in the decomposition of corpses—both human and non-human—I seek to trace what might be called “necrosystems,” multi-scalar spaces of care for corpses, and by extension, care for ecosystems.
Activities / Resume
- Bachelor's/Master's in Biology and Ecology
École Normale Supérieure - 2020–2024
- Diploma from the École Normale Supérieure
IMALIS (International Master’s in Life Sciences).
- M2 Biodiversity Society (DCDB) - MNHN