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Professor of contemporary history on secondment to INRAE, director of the UMR Territoires in Clermont-Ferrand, and co-editor-in-chief of the journal *Natures Sciences Sociétés* (EDP) ().
Latest publication
A Short History of Rural France
For a Socio-Ecological Reinterpretation of the Fabric of Rural Life
- By Pierre Cornu
In Pouvoirs (2026/2 n° 197)
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A Short History of Rural France
For a Socio-Ecological Reinterpretation of the Fabric of Rural Life
- By Pierre Cornu
In Pouvoirs (2026/2 n° 197)
A historian in interdisciplinarity. An essay on situated epistemology
- By Pierre Cornu
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2023/1 Vol. 31)
Abandonment of Agricultural Land and Reforestation
The Case of the Cévennes Region (1860–1970)
- By Pierre Cornu
In Histoire & Sociétés Rurales (2003/2 Vol. 20)
From the crisis of temporalities to the conditions for overcoming it. An interdisciplinary essay
- By Pierre Cornu
- and Jacques Theys
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2023/4 Vol. 31)
Time of nature, time of society, time of sciences in the age of global change. For a multidisciplinary approach to the crisis of temporality
- By Jacques Theys
- and Pierre Cornu
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2019/4 Vol. 27)
The liberalization of the Common Agricultural Policy, an acculturation challenge for France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research (1978–1992)
- By Egizio Valceschini
- and Pierre Cornu
In Économie rurale (2020/2 No 372)
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Articles
A Short History of Rural France
For a Socio-Ecological Reinterpretation of the Fabric of Rural Life
In Pouvoirs (2026/2 n° 197)
Editorial
Addressing transformations: a new scientific challenge
- By Pierre Cornu
- and Christophe Soulard
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2024/3 Vol. 32)
Introduction
- By Pierre Cornu
- and Jacques Theys
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2023/4 Vol. 31)
From the crisis of temporalities to the conditions for overcoming it. An interdisciplinary essay
- By Pierre Cornu
- and Jacques Theys
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2023/4 Vol. 31)
A historian in interdisciplinarity. An essay on situated epistemology
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2023/1 Vol. 31)
The liberalization of the Common Agricultural Policy, an acculturation challenge for France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research (1978–1992)
- By Egizio Valceschini
- and Pierre Cornu
In Économie rurale (2020/2 No 372)
Time of nature, time of society, time of sciences in the age of global change. For a multidisciplinary approach to the crisis of temporality
- By Jacques Theys
- and Pierre Cornu
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2019/4 Vol. 27)
Sylvain Brunier, Le bonheur dans la modernité. Conseillers agricoles et agriculteurs (1945-1985)
In Études rurales (2019/2 No 204)
Editorial
Interdisciplinarity, a Vulnerable Chesspiece in the Major Reorganization of French Academic Governance
- By Pierre Cornu
- and Fabrice Flipo
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2014/2 Vol. 22)