Philippe Sormani

► Board member, Laboratoire d’études des sciences et des techniques, Université de Lausanne

► Membre associé au Centre d’étude des mouvements sociaux, EHESS, Paris

Domaines de recherche

► Etudes sociales des pratiques scientifiques et des politiques de recherche

► Ethnographie, ethnométhodologie, analyse vidéo

► Epistémologie des sciences sociales, interdisciplinarité et pratiques artistiques

Publications (sélection)

Ouvrages, direction d'ouvrages et de revues

♦ Sormani, Ph. & D. vom Lehn (eds) (2023), The Anthem Companion to Harold Garfinkel. London: Anthem Press. [https://anthempress.com/the-anthem-companion-to-harold-garfinkel-pdf].

♦ Sormani, Ph., Carbone, G. & P. Gisler (eds.) (2018), Practicing Art/Science: Experiments in an Emerging Field, Londres & New York, Routledge [routledge.com/Practicing-Art-Science-Experiments-in-an-Emerging-Field/Sormani-Carbone-Gisler/p/book/9781138039414].

♦ Merz M. & Ph. Sormani (eds.) (2016), « The Local Configuration of New Research Fields. On Regional and National Diversity », Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 29.
[springer.com/us/book/9783319226828].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2014), Respecifying Lab Ethnography: An Ethnomethodological Study of Experimental Physics. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
[routledge.com/products/9781409465867].

♦ Sormani Ph., González-Martínez E. & A. Bovet (eds.) (2011), « Discovering Work: Ethnomethodological Studies in the Natural Sciences », special issue of Ethnographic Studies, n° 12, December 2011.
[zhbluzern.ch/index.php?id=2584].

Articles dans journaux expertisés

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2023), « Interfacing AlphaGo: Embodied Play, Object Agency, and Algorithmic Drama ». Social Studies of Science, 53(5): 686–711. [https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231191284].

♦ Mair, M., Brooker, P., Dutton, W., & Sormani, P. (2021), « Just what are we doing when we’re describing AI? Harvey Sacks, the commentator machine, and the descriptive politics of the new artificial intelligence », Qualitative Research, 21(3), 341-359. [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794120975988].

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2020) “‘DIY AI’? – Practicing Kit Assembly, Locating Critical Inquiry”, Ethnographic Studies 17:60-80. [https://zenodo.org/record/4050539#.YmUIYS2B1Pt].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2016), « Practice-based Video Analysis: a Position Statement », SOCIETÀMUTAMENTOPOLITICA, Vol. 7, p. 103-120.
[fupress.net/index.php/smp/issue/current].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2016), « Practicing Innovation: Mobile nano-training, emerging tensions and prospective arrangements », Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 29, p. 229-247.
[springer.com/de/book/9783319226828].

♦ Merz M. & Ph. Sormani (2016), « Configuring New Research Fields: How Policy, Place, and Organization are Made to Matter », Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 29, p. 1-22.
[springer.com/de/book/9783319226828].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2015), « Fun in Go: The Timely Delivery of a Monkey Jump and Its Lingering Relevance to Science Studies », Human Studies, Vol. 38, p. 281-308.
[link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10746-015-9340-x]

♦ Sormani Ph., Strebel I. & A. Bovet  (2015), « Reassembling Repair: Of Maintenance Routine, Botched Jobs, and Situated Inquiry », Tecnoscienza. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 6 (2), p. 41-60.
[tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/view/235]

♦ Benninghoff M. & Ph. Sormani (2014), « Les ‘projets de coopération et d'innovation’: instrument de restructuration de l'espace académique suisse? », Genèses, 1(94), p. 32-54.
[cairn.info/revue-geneses-2014-1.htm]

♦ Sormani Ph. (2011), « The Jubilatory YES! On the Instant Appraisal of an Experimental Finding », Ethnographic Studies, 12, p. 59-77.
[edoc.zhbluzern.ch/oaj/es/ethnographic_studies_12_05.pdf]

♦ Sormani Ph., González-Martínez E. & A. Bovet (2011), « Discovering Work: A Topical Introduction », Ethnographic Studies, 12, p. 1-11.
[edoc.zhbluzern.ch/oaj/es/ethnographic_studies_12_01.pdf]

♦ Benninghoff M. & Ph. Sormani (2008), « Experimental Research and the Managerial Attitude: a tension to be resolved? », European Journal of Education, 43(3), p. 265-280. [onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1465-3435.2008.00358.x/abstract]

Chapitres de livres

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2022) « Recovering the Work of a Discovering Science with a Video Camera in Hand: The Electronically Probed/Visually Discovered Spectrum », in Maynard, D. & J. Heritage (Eds.), The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press. [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/harold-garfinkel-and-ethnomethodology-9780190854409?lang=en&cc=us].

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2020) « Reenactment as a Research Strategy: From Performance Art to Video Analysis and Back Again », in Borgdorff, H., Pinch, T. & P. Peters (Eds.), Dialogues between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies. London & New York: Routledge, Art & Visual Culture Series, pp. 184-200. [https://www.routledge.com/Dialogues-Between-Artistic-Research-and-Science-and-Technology-Studies/Borgdorff-Peters-Pinch/p/book/9781138343856].

♦ Sormani, Ph., Bovet, A., Strebel, I. (2019) « Introduction: When Things Break Down», in Strebel, I., Bovet, A. & Ph. Sormani (Eds.), Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality. Singapore: Springer Nature / Palgrave-MacMillan, pp. 1-27. [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-2110-8_1].

♦ Sormani, Ph., Alač, M., Bovet, A. & C. Greiffenhagen (2017) « Ethnomethodology, Video Analysis, and STS », in Felt, U., Fouché, R., Miller, C.A. & L. Smith-Doerr (Eds.), The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, 4th Edition, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, p. 113-137.
[mit-press.myshopify.com/products/chapter-4-ethnomethodology-video-analysis-and-sts]

♦ Sormani Ph. & D. Rossé,  (2014), « Le rapport entre “dire” et “faire”: du problème épistémologique au phénomène empirique », in A. Bovet, F. Malbois & E. Gonzalez-Martinez (eds.), Langage, activités et ordre social. Faire de la sociologie avec Harvey Sacks, Berne, Peter Lang, p. 187-216.
[peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=79640&cid=539].

♦ Bovet A., Sormani Ph. & C. Terzi (2014), « The televisual accountability of Reality TV », in M. Broth, E. Laurier & L. Mondada (eds.), Studies of Video Practices. Video at Work, London / New York: Routledge, p. 208-233.
[routledge.com/products/9780415728393].

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2010), « L'ordinaire dans l’ ’ésotérique’: l'action instruite comme phénomène instructif », in B. Olszewska, M. Barthélémy & S. Laugier (eds.), Les données de l'enquête, Paris, PUF, p. 167-195.

♦ Sormani, Ph. & M. Benninghoff (2008), « Metaphorical Moves: ‘Scientific Expertise’ in Research Policy Studies », in T. Carver & J. Pikalo (eds.), Political Language and Metaphor, London / New York, Routledge, p. 257-270.
[routledge.com/products/9780415663762].

♦ Benninghoff M. & Ph. Sormani (2008), « Culture in Interaction: Academic Identities in Laboratory Work », in J. Välimaa & O.-H. Ylijoki (eds.), Cultural Perspectives on Higher Education, Berlin, Springer, p. 109-126.
[link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4020-6604-7_8].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2006), « Comment orienter une recherche orientée? L’énonciation du discours comme enjeu de l’interaction », in J.-Ph Leresche, M. Benninghoff, F. Crettaz von Roten & M. Merz (eds.), La fabrique des sciences. Des institutions aux pratiques, Lausanne, PPUR, p. 201-218.
[ppur.org/produit/25/9782889140053/La%20fabrique%20des%20sciences%20].

Recensions

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2022), « Reading and Reworking ‘Studies of Work in the Sciences’ (Parts I & II) », Symbolic Interaction 46(1):125-130. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/symb.618].

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2020) « Reflexive Ethnography as ‘Data Science’? A Sociological Contribution to Praxeology », Symbolic Interaction 44(1):260-263. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/symb.488]

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2019) « Ethnomethodological Analysis », in Atkinson, P., Delamont, S., Cernat, A., Sakshaug, J.W. & Richard A. Williams (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Research Methods. London: Sage. [10K Foundation Entry] [http://methods.sagepub.com/foundations/ethnomethodological-analysis].

♦ Sormani, Ph. (2017), “Deconstructing Ethnography, Reconstructing Ethnomethodology? A Reflexive Note”, Symbolic Interaction [onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/symb.290/full]

♦ Sormani Ph. (2013), Recension de Stivers, T., Mondada, L., Steensig, J. (2011) The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in Gesprächsforschung. Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion.
[gespraechsforschung-online.de/fileadmin/dateien/heft2013/rz-sormani.pdf].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2011a), Recension de Alač, M. (2011), Handling digital brains: a laboratory study of multimodal semiotic interaction in the age of computers. Cambridge, MA & London, UK: The MIT Press, in Gesture, 11(3), pp. 371-382.
[benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/gest.11.3.06sor/details].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2011b), Recension de Denis, J., Pontille, D. (2010) Petite sociologie de la signalétique. Les coulisses des panneaux du métro. Paris: Presses des Mines, Coll. Sciences Sociales, in Revue d’anthropologie des connaissances, 5(2).
[cairn.info/revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2011-2-page-466.htm].

♦ Sormani Ph. (2009), Recension de Ogien, A., Quéré, L. (Eds.) (2006) Les moments de la confiance. Connaissance, affects et engagements. Paris: Ed. Economica, in Swiss Journal of Sociology, 35(2), pp. 411-414.