Les systèmes « techniques » alimentaires et l’approche relationnelle comme outil de repolitisation
(2025) Ethique Publique — Vol. 26, n° 2, p. en ligne (2025)
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- (en) Addressing discourses on agricultural transformation, from past revolutions to the sustainable transition, this article critically examines their political justification through a technoscientific narrative. Based on a dualistic and heteronomous model, this narrative is criticized for its depoliticizing nature, presenting agricultural projects as neutral, objective, and universal, and for its reductionist approach to science (Cartesian), imposing a Western ontology while disregarding other ontologies, knowledge systems, and relationships with the agricultural world. In this context, the article proposes a relational approach to politics, seeking to break away from these dualistic technoscientific narratives and to promote the autonomy of communities as well as the legitimacy of their ontologies, knowledge systems, and relationships with non-humans. This approach is inspired by the political philosophy of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, and particularly Cornélius Castoriadis, notably his distinction between technè and praxis and his emphasis on political imaginaries. Finally, the article supports this relational approach with concrete European examples, particularly in seed governance and the zones à défendre (ZAD), which demonstrate a repoliticization of agricultural issues and the integration of holistic and relational elements into political action.
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Walckiers, P. (2025). Les systèmes « techniques » alimentaires et l’approche relationnelle comme outil de repolitisation. Ethique Publique, 26(2), en ligne. https://doi.org/10.4000/13s4h (Original work published 2025)