Hervé Rayner
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Courses
Sustainability
This course presents global sustainability issues. It introduces planetary boundaries, their systemic interconnections and social justice issues. The interdisciplinary approach introduces group work and systems thinking (interdependencies in a complex system).
Why do we live in a risk society?
Are we living in a "risk society" ? To answer that question, we will analyze the various social processes (from the invention of probabilities to the rise of insurance companies, from the securing policies to the victims' mobilisations) that contribute to the emergence of risk.
What are scandals made of ?
The aim of this course is to understand these recurrent and disruptive social phenomena that constitute scandals, affairs and controversies, which have in common to be made of mobilisations.