{"id":3456,"date":"2018-08-13T15:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2018-08-17T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T03:52:01","slug":"didier-fassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/didier-fassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Didier Fassin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/didier-fassin\/didier_fassin-emmanuelle_marchadour2-15\/#main\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3457 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/files\/2018\/08\/Didier_Fassin-Emmanuelle_Marchadour2-15-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Didier Fassin\u00a0is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Director of Studies at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales. Anthropologist, sociologist and physician, he dedicated his most recent research ro a critical engagement with philosophical approaches to punishment, which was the matter of his Tanner Lectures at Berkeley, and to life, which was the topic of his Adorno Lectures in Frankfurt. He received in 2016\u00a0\u00a0the Gold Medal in anthropology at the Swedish Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences and was in 2018 the first social scientist to be granted the Nomis Distinguished Scholar Award.\u00a0Former vice-president of M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res, he is currently President of the French Medical Committee for Exiles. He recently authored\u00a0<i>Prison Worlds. An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition<\/i>\u00a0(Polity, 2016),\u00a0<i>The Will to Punish\u00a0<\/i>(Oxford University Press, 2018), and\u00a0<i>Life. A critical User\u2019s Manua<\/i>l (Polity, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Didier Fassin\u00a0is the James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Director of Studies at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales. Anthropologist, sociologist and physician, he dedicated his most recent research ro&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/didier-fassin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38988],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests-9-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/praxis1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}