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  • Moral Abdication

    How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Translated by Gregory Elliott ...
    Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza, silencing the Palestinians and those who speak on their behalf.Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and often contributed to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On the Inequality of Lives

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 16 January 2020

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    There is, on the one hand, life that flows from a beginning to an end, and, on the other hand, life that constitutes human singularity because it can be recounted. We may term them “biological life” and “biographical life”. Life expectancy measures the length of the former; a life story relates the richness of the latter. Only by acknowledging both can the inequality of lives be comprehended. They ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Empire of Trauma

    An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood

    by Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman ...
    Translated by Rachel Gomme ...
    Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • At the Heart of the State

    The Moral World of Institutions

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Translated by Patrick Brown ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete reality with a morality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time.A political and moral anthropology, this book is the result of a five-year investigation conducted by ten scholars, based in France. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Death of a Traveller

    A Counter Investigation

    by Didier Fassin ...
    It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm where he was hiding since he failed to return to prison after temporary release. The officers claim self-defense. The relatives, present at the scene, contest that claim. A case is opened, and it concludes with a dismissal that is upheld on appeal. ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Exile

    Chronicle of the Border

    by Didier Fassin, Anne-Claire Defossez ...
    In recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fueled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers and externalize border monitoring in remote territories. Men, women and children who flee political violence, religious persecution or poverty in their country and set off ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Life

    A Critical User's Manual

    by Didier Fassin ...
    How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approaches? Using research ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Humanitarian Reason

    A Moral History of the Present

    by Didier Fassin ...
    In the face of the world’s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Policing the City

    An Ethno-graphic

    by Didier Fassin, Frédéric Debomy ...
    Translated by Rachel Gomme ...
    Adapted from the landmark essay Enforcing Order, this striking graphic novel offers an accessible inside look at policing and how it leads to discrimination and violence.What we know about the forces of law and order often comes from tragic episodes that make the headlines, or from sensationalized versions for film and television. These gripping accounts obscure two crucial aspects of police work: ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Will to Punish

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Over the last few decades, most societies have become more repressive, their laws more relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the evolution of crime. In The Will to Punish, using an approach both genealogical and ethnographic, distinguished anthropologist Didier Fassin addresses the major issues raised by this punitive moment through an inquiry into the very foundations of ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Worlds of Public Health

    Anthropological Excursions

    by Didier Fassin ...
    Public health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives.The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Prison Worlds

    An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

    by Didier Fassin ...
    The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there?To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD