Vita
2025 – today
Postdoctoral Researcher, HIFMB, Oldenburg
2019 – 2024
PhD Geography, University of Paul Valéry Montpellier III, France
2019 – 2022
Research Officer, French Development Agency, Paris, France
2015 – 2018
MSc International Development, Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs, France
2012 – 2015
BSc Life Science, Sorbonne University Paris VI, France
2012 – 2015
BA Humanities and Social Science, Sciences Po, France
Research Interests
At the crossroad of human geography and interdisciplinary environmental sciences, I am interested in how ‘oceanic globality’ is socially constructed: where, by whom, how, with what intentions and with what effects. Environmental changes such as greenhouse gas levels and the circulation of certain pollutions have led to scientific diagnoses and policy responses at a ‘global’ scale. Within this trend, the geographical figure of a ‘global,’ ecologically united ‘Ocean,’ is increasingly conveyed and transferred from particular sciences to international policy-making, setting agendas and solutions within scalar terms. This postdoctoral project unpacks both how the ocean is constructed in respect of scale and the tensions that this scalar construct entails, between socio-ecological interconnectedness across important distances, and processes of depoliticization and social simplification of oceans. To do so, I investigate oceanic ‘globality-in-the-making’ across distinct streams of research: 1) the positioning of specific sciences such as the ’global tipping elements’ framework circulating across policy and media; 2) the geographical construction of specific High Seas areas as new conservation territories within global ocean policies; and 3) the role of private funding organizations influencing the making of this oceanic globality.
Project within the HIPP cohort (call 2025)
My work in the cohort focuses on the role of ‘scale’ – especially the ‘global’ – in tipping points thinking, and on examining the discursive dynamics of the ‘global tipping elements’ framework. As a geographer and social scientist, I am interested in tracing some of the key actors (scientists, institutions, funders) involved in this science-policy ‘global tipping’ narrative.
Highlighted Publications
Legroux, Nadège. 2024. A limit to the ocean Frontier? The offshore construction of the Costa Rica Dome. Doctor of Philosophy in Geography: University Paul Valéry Montpellier III / And short perspective piece: https://oceannexus.org/2024/11/01/critiquing-ocean-frontier-ideology-the-case-of-the-costa-rica-dome/