{"id":905,"date":"2015-10-08T19:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.elotroalex.com\/foucault\/?p=100"},"modified":"2015-10-08T19:44:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T19:44:34","slug":"introducing-didier-fassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/08\/introducing-didier-fassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Fassin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/files\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-340 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/files\/2015\/10\/unnamed.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"200\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was professor at the University of\u00a0Paris North and director of studies at the EHESS, \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales. At the CNRS, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, he created\u00a0the Interdisciplinary Research Institute in Social Sciences (IRIS), of which he was the Director. He is an anthropologist, a sociologist and a physician. At the crossroads\u00a0between disciplines, he has worked in the field of medical anthropology, conducting fieldwork in Senegal, Ecuador, and South Africa with a focus on issues of power and\u00a0inequalities as well as on the production and construction of health problems. In recent years he has turned to the question of moral economies in contemporary societies, that\u00a0is to say to the production, circulation and appropriation of values and affects in social contexts, conducting research on humanitarianism in various parts of the world. His most\u00a0recent work examines the moral and ethical issues public institutions such as police, justice and prison face when they deal with marginalized \u201cpublics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of numerous books, many of which have been translated into English including\u00a0<i>De la question sociale \u00e0 la question raciale? Repr\u00e9senter la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise\u00a0<\/i>(with \u00c9ric Fassin), Paris: La D\u00e9couverte, 2006;\u00a0<i>The Empire of Trauma. Inquiry into the Condition of Victim,<\/i>\u00a0Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009;\u00a0<i>Humanitarian Reason.\u00a0A Moral History of the Present,<\/i>\u00a0Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011;\u00a0<i>Enforcing Order. An Ethnography of Urban Policing,<\/i>\u00a0Cambridge: Polity Press, 2013;\u00a0<i>At the Heart\u00a0of the State. The Moral World of Institutions,<\/i>\u00a0London: Pluto: 2015. Most recently he edited\u00a0<i>Moral Anthropology. A Companion Volume,<\/i>\u00a0Malden: Blackwell, 2012, and\u00a0<i>Moral\u00a0Anthropology. A Critical Reader,<\/i>\u00a0London: Routledge, 2014.\u00a0<i>L\u2019Ombre du monde. Une anthropologie de la condition carc\u00e9rale,<\/i>\u00a0Paris: Seuil, 2015 (forthcoming as\u00a0<i>Prison Worlds.\u00a0An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition,<\/i>\u00a0Cambridge: Polity Press), is the result of a four year study in a French prison. It follows inmates from their trial to their release and\u00a0analyzes the carceral condition, from the banalization of imprisonment and the reinforcement of social and racial inequalities to the micro-resistances, compromises and\u00a0accommodations which accompany them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton since 2009. Prior to this appointment, he was professor at the University of\u00a0Paris North and director of studies at the EHESS, \u00c9cole des Hautes&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/2015\/10\/08\/introducing-didier-fassin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38946,38949],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests","category-guests-3-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/foucault1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}