Civil society
As a sociologist, Gautier Pirotte studies how multinational organizations define civil society. He wrote the eponymous handbook : Gautier Pirotte, 2007, La notion de société civile, Paris: La Découverte.
The Porphyry software allows browsing simultaneously two viewpoints modelling two concurrent theories: the economy of worth (Boltanski & Thévenot, 2006) and his own theory on civil society (Pirotte, 2007). These viewpoints are stored in the Cassandre software that provides textual analysis features. By this mean, contributions of each theories to the field study can be compared and evaluated.
The case study of civil society is quoted as an illustration of 'Humanities 2.0' :
- Short paper (talk) : Humanities 2.0: Fostering inter-subjectivity
- Extended paper : Humanities 2.0 : Document, interpretation and intersubjectivity in the digital age
