Alexandre Geffroy
is a research engineer at the Urba Risk Lab consortium (director: Valérie November; project manager: Alice Azemar).
He holds a PhD in Geography and defended his thesis entitled "The territorialization of public action in crisis situations. The case of animal meal in the context of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in France
" in November 2018
. This thesis was carried out at the CNRS IDEES 6266 research unit, under the supervision of Emmanuel Eliot, professor of geography at the University of Rouen Normandy.
This research questions the public action taken by the French government to manage animal meal, a product recognized as a health risk because it is a vector for the spread of BSE in cattle herds.
To this end, the thesis draws on various types of archives (governmental, industrial, media, and associative) and has a twofold objective.
On the one hand, it seeks to reconstruct the temporality of public action in the management of animal meal in relation to the various local actors involved and, on the other hand, to identify the levels of action and territorial strategies at play
in maintaining or resolving this crisis.