Beekeepers’ Collective Resistance and the Politics of Pesticide Regulation in France and the United States. Suryanarayanan, S. & Kleinman, D. Political Power and Social Theory, 27:89–122, August, 2014. doi abstract bibtex This paper utilizes controversies over the role of a set of insecticides in mass honey bee die-offs in two different national contexts–France and the United States–in order to understand the science-state nexus in a comparative manner. On the one hand, the French government in 1999 and 2004 suspended the commercial use of the insecticidal products that beekeepers suspected of causing the honey bee declines. On the other hand, the US government has to date refused to heed beekeepers’ calls to limit the usage of the very same set of insecticides. We examine why the governments of France and the United States came to contrasting conclusions regarding broadly similar techno-scientific issues. The divergent outcomes, we argue, are not simply the result of pre-determined differences in the two states’ regulatory paradigms (with France being ‘precautionary,’ and the US adhering to a ‘sound science’ approach), but are underpinned by divergent forms of beekeepers’ resistance. The paper further sheds light on non-state actors’ use of science and state to contest state (in)action by analyzing how historically influenced differences in state structures, the relational dynamics of beekeepers’ and farmers’ organizations, and the epistemic cultures of honey bee knowledge production, shaped different forms of resistance and influence in France and the US.
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title = {Beekeepers’ {Collective} {Resistance} and the {Politics} of {Pesticide} {Regulation} in {France} and the {United} {States}},
volume = {27},
issn = {978-1-78350-668-2},
doi = {10.1108/S0198-871920140000027011},
abstract = {This paper utilizes controversies over the role of a set of insecticides in mass honey bee die-offs in two different national contexts--France and the United States--in order to understand the science-state nexus in a comparative manner. On the one hand, the French government in 1999 and 2004 suspended the commercial use of the insecticidal products that beekeepers suspected of causing the honey bee declines. On the other hand, the US government has to date refused to heed beekeepers’ calls to limit the usage of the very same set of insecticides. We examine why the governments of France and the United States came to contrasting conclusions regarding broadly similar techno-scientific issues. The divergent outcomes, we argue, are not simply the result of pre-determined differences in the two states’ regulatory paradigms (with France being ‘precautionary,’ and the US adhering to a ‘sound science’ approach), but are underpinned by divergent forms of beekeepers’ resistance. The paper further sheds light on non-state actors’ use of science and state to contest state (in)action by analyzing how historically influenced differences in state structures, the relational dynamics of beekeepers’ and farmers’ organizations, and the epistemic cultures of honey bee knowledge production, shaped different forms of resistance and influence in France and the US.},
journal = {Political Power and Social Theory},
author = {Suryanarayanan, Sainath and Kleinman, Daniel},
month = aug,
year = {2014},
pages = {89--122},
}
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