Bérénice Girard
Membership: 2022
Member Bio
Bérénice Girard is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research focuses on environmental policies and their actors in contemporary India. She defended her PhD in sociology at EHESS Paris in July 2019. Her thesis, “The Engineers, the River and the State: The Role and Place of Engineers in the Management of the Ganges,” was awarded the 2020 French Academic Network on Asian Studies PhD Award.
At the time of her fellowship, her research focused on the role of small and medium enterprises in solar rollout. She is particularly interested in the discourses, perspectives, and work practices of solar entrepreneurs, and their role in shaping the transition to low-carbon energies at the local and regional levels. She conducts fieldwork in the state of Rajasthan in India and in the Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in France.
