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Les normes ISO, entre soft law étendue et dessein biopolitique

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  • Jérôme Lamy

    (CESSP - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Philippe Schäfer

    (AHP-PReST - Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Vincent Helfrich

    (AHP-PReST - Archives Henri-Poincaré - Philosophie et Recherches sur les Sciences et les Technologies - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - AgroParisTech - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) - Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

Abstract

ISO standards belong to the field of soft law and are imposed as voluntary standards. The article proposes a political sociology of their construction and implementation. The aim is to identify the regulatory plasticity that ISO standards allow: inscribed in a normative continuum, these soft laws give multiple intakes and broad acceptances. Their drafting format continuously works on this normative lability. Following the Foucauldian path of biopolitics and the potentiality of a pragmatic sociology attentive to information formats, the article concludes on the double political property of ISO standards: at the same time an attempt to cover the whole range of social practices and a rather loose power of constraint, precisely because of the extensive envelopment targeted.

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  • Jérôme Lamy & Philippe Schäfer & Vincent Helfrich, 2021. "Les normes ISO, entre soft law étendue et dessein biopolitique," Post-Print hal-03454179, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03454179
    DOI: 10.4000/cdst.4187
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