Coline Prévost
PhD Student - Doctorante
Barbara Van Dyck & Prof. Marjolein Visser
Tel: +33 (0) 6 75 39 08 00
Email: coline.prevost@ulb.be
Profile & curriculum
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Bsc in Humanistic and Scientific Culture (Bordeaux Montaigne, France) - (2017-2020)
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Msc in Agroecology (ULB - ULiège) - (2022-2024)
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PhD student (2024-present)
Research interests
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Peasant tools and peasant autonomy
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Sociology of innovation and analysis of agrarian technologies from a a feminist political ecology point of view
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Impact of digital technologies on the relationship between humans and more-than-humans
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Socio-technical transformation of agriculture and digitalisation
Research project
PhD researcher in the project FRICTION - political agroecology at the encounter of biodigital innovation and farming worlds in Belgium
FRICTION is an interdisciplinary political agroecology research project that traces back why and how digital agricultural technologies became so prominent in a very short time span and with what consequences. The FRICTION researchers work together to depict the different interests, actors and narratives that allow the rapid expansion of digital agriculture, and to understand the power relations that shape and are shaped by digital infrastructure. FRICTION also explores the promises of AgTech and brings them into discussion with the very social and material impacts of these technologies on farms.
A case study : automated milking robots (AMS). My research will mainly focus on dairy farms and milking robots. AMS are machines that can milk cows and make decisions on herd management without the presence of farmers or other land workers. These robots also record and store vast amounts of data.
I am exploring the problems these machines promise to address (low milk earnings, labour scarcity in dairy farms, difficulty of transmitting farms), the changes they generate on farms and the broader picture of radical changes taking place in the farming worlds.
Crédits photo : Louis Gauthier