PUBLICATIONS, Peer-Reviewed
Journal Articles
Lambert, Sandrine et Martin Hébert, 2026, « Une planète de rechange ? Les Chroniques martiennes, une fiction critique de l’idéologie de conquête d’hier et d’aujourd’hui », 6 | 2026 - Fictions et spatialités, GéoProximitéS (GPS) :https://geoproximites.fr/ark:/84480/2026/04/14/fs-3/
Based on an analysis of Ray Bradbury’s collection The Martian Chronicles, this article explores the resonances between yesterday’s and today’s ambitions for terrestrial and spatial conquest. The mobilization of the planet Mars in this fictional narrative functions as a critical mirror held up to Earth. It questions the ability of human societies to invest themselves in a new world, and above all to reinvent themselves there, when they are struggling to preserve their own world of origin and to recognize the value of the beings they are already interconnected with.
Lambert, Sandrine et Martin Hébert, 2026, « Anthropologie du spatial », Anthropen. https://doi.org/10.47854/9gxyee34
The anthropology of space has developed modestly but steadily since the late 1950s. It examines the sociocultural and political dimensions of exploring and inhabiting space, whether real or imagined. Outer space is becoming both a place within our contemporary world and an object of fantasies, fueled by actors in astrocapitalism. The analogy with colonial expansion, frequently used to think about a possible human spread into space, makes it possible to formulate critical analyses of the reproduction of imperialist and extractivist logics. Space exploration reflects our ways of inhabiting the Earth and calls for a multisited, planetary ethnography. The anthropology of space considers space as a research object with multiple implications, in continuity and interconnection with terrestrial activities, while remaining attentive to the possibilities created by this new dimension of human experience.
Lambert, Sandrine, Perron, Lucie et Oriol Blas Guinovart, 2025, « Les artefacts sonnent l’alarme dans un makerspace de Barcelone ! Explorations autour d’une fiction ethnographique illustrée », Anthropologica, 66 (2) https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica66220242685
This is the story about an anthropologist who heads off to spend time with makers in Barcelona and stays there for 18 months. Caught in a whirlwind of encounters and adventures, she explores spaces where the sum of collective learning is worth more than all the machines and artifacts combined. Participating allows her to percolate a shared reflexivity. Coding workshops during soldering sessions, making electronic circuits while carrying out a heritage development project, and data emerges, the terrain takes shape and meaning unfolds, without, however, exhausting the eternal question: how best to give an account of this research?
Illustration represents one of the possible solutions to bring to the foreground a polyphonic narrative and leave a sensitive trace of a journey that is as human as it is heuristic. Telling a story reveals the creative and subjective dimension of rendering data while attempting to give research participants a more rightful place. This illustrated ethnographic fiction is the result of a collaborative experiment between an anthropologist, an illustrator and a maker. You will be exposed to talking artifacts, to workers who emerge from the past to weave the fabric of a technical story that continues to write itself and spark larger- than-life social hope.
Menichinelli, Massimo, Maurizio Napolitano, Luca d’Elia, Massimo Bianchini, Silvia d’Ambrosio and Sandrine Lambert, 2024, “Assessing the impact of maker services in Barcelona and Milan towards the 15-Minute City model through their accessibility”, The Design Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2024.2405773
Lambert, Sandrine, 2023, « Ethnographie en période de pandémie et mobilisation des Coronavirus Makers à Barcelone : Le fleurissement des solidarités impromptues », Anthropologica, 65 (1), p. 1 à 22,https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica65120232607.
Ethnography during a pandemic and the mobilization of Coronavirus Makers in Barcelona. The flowering of impromptu solidarity
On the margins of habitable worlds, impromptu solidarities emerge that restore the potential of a tightly woven humanity, even if it is hanging by no more than a thread. This article is the personal and humorous account of an ethnography in Barcelona where nothing goes as planned, specifically because of a pandemic that fundamentally changes the nature of social interactions. In this chaos, the maker movement that constitutes the object of my research took a spectacular turn, using its 3D printers and its capacity for collective organization and solidarity to manufacture and distribute personal protective equipment that had become impossible to find. Based on interviews and observations, but also articles and grey literature, I analyze the way in which Coronavirus Makers deployed both their power to act and a narrative of the social usefulness of their actions, suddenly very publicized. Thus, in the cracks of a scrambling economy, there were glimpses of the potential to relocalize production based on digital manufacturing, the circular economy, and productive cities. Nevertheless, despite the flamboyance of the epiphany maker, the limits of the liberation of production chains and global supply still very much remain a reality.
Lambert, Sandrine, 2023, « Fabrication numérique à Barcelone : les effets sociopolitiques de la participation lors des Mercredis Makers », Les enjeux de l’information et de la communication n° 23/4, p.61 à 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/enic.034.0061.
Digital fabrication in Barcelona: the socio-political effects of participation during the “Wednesdays Makers” sessions
This article describes the social and political effects that emerge from the participatory dynamics at work during the “Wednesdays Makers” sessions [DimecresFab] at the Fab Casa del Mig in Barcelona. The text draws on social science and critical perspective applied to technologies and mobilises data from an empirical and qualitative study based on a one-year ethnography within the makerspace. By promoting user autonomy, redistribution of knowledge and the development of links with local social and historical realities, the “Wednesdays Makers” enable citizen-users to implement and strengthen capacities for action and reflection on technological matters. In the light of the exploration and analysis of these open and collective digital fabrication and electronics sessions, it appears that participation contributes to democratising technologies and making their political dimension visible.
BOOK CHAPTER
Lambert, Sandrine, Martin Deron, Jonathan Durand Folco, Joël Nadeau, (Accepted – Released in Fall 2026), « Les communs numériques : une alternative crédible ou un leurre utile au capitalisme ? » In Politiques des communs, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval (PUL), open access.
BLOG PIECE (peer-reviewed)
Lambert, Sandrine, 2026, “Introducing Citizen Technology: Ethnographic Insights from Makerspaces”, Platypus, the CASTAC blog, May 25, 2026 https://blog.castac.org/2026/05/introducing-citizen-technology-ethnographic-insights-from-makerspaces/
RESEARCH NOTE
Lambert, Sandrine and Martin Hébert, (accepted), « IArtefact : un projet de mobilisation de l’intelligence artificielle pour la documentation d’objets ethnographiques », Anthropologie et Sociétés.
DISSERTATION
Lambert, Sandrine, 2025, Les potentialités sociopolitiques des processus participatifs dans les espaces de fabrication numérique à Barcelone, Dissertation, Université Laval. Directions de recherche : Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy et Martin Hébert. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/157083 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31210.02241
BOOK REVIEW
Lambert, Sandrine, 2025, « Camilo Leon-Quijano, La Cité. Une anthropologie photographique », L’Homme, 253 | 2025, 201-203. https://doi.org/10.4000/13olo
Lambert, Sandrine, 2025, « Martina Avanza, Sarah Mazouz, Romain Pudal (dir.), Ethnographie(s) politique(s). Méthodes, objets et terrains », Lectures [En ligne], Les comptes rendus, mis en ligne le 15 janvier 2025, URL : http://journals.openedition.org/lectures/66524
Lambert, Sandrine, 2024, « Where Cloud is Ground. Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland, par Alix Johnson ». Anthropologica, 66 (1). https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica66120242711
Lambert, Sandrine, 2022, « Abélès, Marc, 2020, Carnets d’un anthropologue : de Mai 68 aux Gilets jaunes. Paris, Odile Jacob, coll. « Mondes contemporains », 233 p. », Anthropologie et Sociétés 46, numéro 1, 233-234. https://doi.org/10.7202/1091320ar
Lambert, Sandrine, 2021, « Jean-Paul Fourmentraux, Antidata : la désobéissance numérique. Art et hacktivisme technocritique », L’Homme, 238, 177-180. https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.40283
Lambert, Sandrine « Müller Bernard, Caterina Pasqualino et Arnd Schneider (dir.), 2017, Le terrain comme mise en scène. Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, coll. « Nouvelles écritures de l’anthropologie », 188 p. ». Anthropologie et Sociétés 44, no 1 (2020) : 289–290. https://doi.org/10.7202/1072786ar
PUBLICATIONS, Non-Peer-Reviewed
Lambert, Sandrine, 2023, « L’IA, un rhinocéros ou un éléphant dans un magasin de porcelaine », Le Devoir, April 12, 2023.
Lambert, Sandrine, 2022, « Ethnography by making: stratégies d’immersion pour l’étude des processus participatifs dans les espaces de fabrication numérique à Barcelone », Anthropo(b)logue, October 2022.
Lambert, Sandrine et Gentelet, Karine, 2022, « Voici pourquoi l’intelligence artificielle ne peut être considérée comme un simple outil », La Conversation (repris par Le Soleil), August 2022.
Menichinelli Massimo, Napolitano Maurizio, Lambert Sandrine, et Massimo Bianichini, 2022, « Maker Laboratories in the metropolitan areas of Barcelona and Milan » (0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo.
Gentelet, Karine et Lambert, Sandrine, 2021, « La justice sociale : l’angle mort de la révolution de l’intelligence artificielle », La Conversation (repris par Le Soleil), June 2021.
Lambert, Sandrine, 2021, « La fabrication numérique : entre création débridée et activation du potentiel démocratique », La Chambre blanche (site web), April 2021.
