Pierre Wokuri | Sciences Po Center for European Studies

Pierre Wokuri is a post-doctoral researcher at the CEE within the framework of the project “What is Governed in Cities: Residential Investment Landscapes and the Governance and Regulation of Housing Production” carried out in collaboration with the University College of London and the University of Amsterdam . His thesis (2015-2020) focused on cooperative renewable energy projects in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. Previously, he was professor of economic and social sciences at the Lycée Français de New Delhi (2012-2014).

Research topics

• Public action : public policies (energy, environment, housing and relating to cooperative organizations)
• Political economics : electricity and real estate markets, new entrants in a market
• Social movements : effects of social movements on public action
• Comparative analyzes : qualitative and quantitative methods, micro, meso and macro articulations

DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Orient and activate: cooperative renewable energy projects tested on the market. A multi-level comparison Denmark, France, United Kingdom

Jury: Claire Dupuy, Professor of comparative politics, UC Louvain, rapporteur, Andy Smith, Director of research FNSP – Sciences Po Bordeaux – Center Emile Durkheim, rapporteur, Aurélien Evrard, Lecturer in political science, University of Nantes, examiner, Graeme Hayes, Reader, Aston University, examiner, Pascale Trompette, CNRS research director, Pacte, examiner, Romain Pasquier, CNRS – Arènes research director, thesis director.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS

2021 (forthcoming, April,) A sociology of social performance. Organizational work and its values ​​in citizen renewable energy cooperatives in Brittany in French journal of sociology (with Benoit Giry)

2021 Community Energy in the United Kingdom: beyond or between the Market and the State? In French Journal of British Civilization, XXVI-2

2020 : Accumulate capital, accumulate power? Reflections from the case of wind farm cooperatives in Denmark in Regulatory review, 28, 2nd semester

2019 : Citizen participation and public policy regimes: new deal or unchanged deal? The case of cooperative renewable energy projects in Denmark and France in Social link and policies, (82), pp. 158–180

2019 : Citizen participation in wind power in Denmark: sustainable institutionalization or temporary experimentation? in Participations, flight. 23, no. 1, 2019 pp. 193-217

2019 : Consumer (Co-) Ownership in Renewables in France, in J. Lowitzsch (dir.). Energy Transition, Financing Consumer Co-Ownership in Renewables. Palgrave, Macmillan (with Melike Yalçin-Riollet and Claire Gauthier).

Contact information

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