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Auto-SHS, un éveil tardif : Les sciences sociales face à l'automobile

Vincent Kaufmann
2024

Abstract

Dans un monde qui voit l'automobile connaître de profondes transformations et qui nous rappelle que cet objet technique peut certainement être considéré comme un fait social total (économique, culturel, historique, environnemental, social, financier, urbanistique, géographique, politique, psychologique, sanitaire…), la Maison des sciences de l'Homme (MSH) de Dijon souhaite engager un travail de réflexion sur plusieurs années pour penser, à partir de multiples regards théoriques, approches méthodologiques et perspectives critiques, le fait automobile. Plus précisément, elle entend organiser un cycle pluriannuel de colloques en s'entourant des meilleurs spécialistes ayant contribué, d'une façon ou d'une autre, à une compréhension fine de ce moyen de transport qui est, à n'en pas douter, bien plus que cela. Les 9 et 10 décembre 2024, un premier colloque inaugurera ce travail pluriannuel de réflexion en revenant sur le passé pour mieux comprendre le présent et le futur, tout en interrogeant les théories et les méthodes relatives à l'objet automobile.

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Vincent Kaufmann
2024

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/2f5ff517-e997-47ba-b7d3-923a66debfb1

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Development of the automobile started in 1672 with the invention of the first steam-powered vehicle, which led to the creation of the first steam-powered automobile capable of human transportation, built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769. Inventors began to branch out at the start of the 19th century, creating the de Rivas engine, one of the first internal combustion engines, and an early electric motor. Samuel Brown later tested the first industrially applied internal combustion engine in 1826.

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