Nantes Université
UMR 6554 CNRS LETG
Campus du Tertre - BP81227
44312 Nantes Cedex 3 (France)
Full professor, Geography, Nantes University (2007-...)
Director of LETG (a CNRS research lab: LETG)
Maritime geography, GIS/mapping, Thesis supervision (to date: 79 Master students and 10 PhD candidates).
I've also been the Director of the Master programme "Geography & Planning of Maritime spaces" (2011-2015), created in 1976 in the University of Nantes.
For over 20 years, my research focuses on ocean geography and ocean governance, more specifically on the relations between human groups and maritime space. Through the lens of Science & Technology studies (STS) and critical approaches (critical data studies), I particularly use the case of fisheries and marine renewable energy in marine spatial planning to study how power relations and knowledges' issues intertwine and, by doing this, shape 'socio-technical agencements'.
While continuing to develop this research, over the last ten years or so, the role of geographic information throughout its life cycle (manufacturing, processing, representation, circulation, (non)use) became one of my key concerns.
Ongoing research programs related to MSP: