Gabriel Lévesque is a sociologist who studies regulatory power, the politics of science and expertise, and the social construction of risk. Before joining the Institute at Brown for Environment & Society, he completed his PhD in Sociology at McGill University. In his dissertation, titled Structures of Latency: The Protraction of Regulatory Controversies over Toxic Substances, he investigates regulatory change and inertia with a substantive focus on environmental and occupational exposures to toxics in Canada and the U.S.
During his tenure as Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate, Gabriel will interrogate the organizational sources of environmental ideas, and how those ideas affect environmental research and policy. Drawing on a groundbreaking database of previously classified corporate documents and using computational methods for large-scale textual analysis, he will study the adoption of influence strategies between corporate entities and the impact of regulatory change on how corporations understand and communicate toxic risk. This project will contribute to better understanding how environmental problems emerge and develop over the long-term.
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