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Didier Fassin

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Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has been appointed to the Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France. Fassin was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

Books

The Empire of Trauma
The Empire of Trauma
Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman
Enforcing Order
Enforcing Order
Didier Fassin
Deepening Divides
Deepening Divides
Didier Fassin
Moral anthropology
Moral anthropology
Didier Fassin, Samuel Lézé
La force de l'ordre
La force de l'ordre
Didier Fassin
Life
Life
Didier Fassin
Policing the City
Policing the City
Didier Fassin, Frédéric Debomy
Death of a Traveller
Death of a Traveller
Didier Fassin
Humanitarian Reason
Humanitarian Reason
Didier Fassin
Crisis Under Critique
Crisis Under Critique
Didier Fassin, Axel Honneth
¿Cuánto vale una vida?
¿Cuánto vale una vida?
Didier Fassin
Policing the City
Policing the City
Didier Fassin, Frédéric Debomy
Four Lectures on Ethics
Four Lectures on Ethics
Didier Fassin, Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Webb Keane
At the Heart of the State
At the Heart of the State
Didier Fassin
Deepening Divides
Deepening Divides
Didier Fassin
Contemporary States of Emergency
Contemporary States of Emergency
Didier Fassin, Mariella Pandolfi
A Time for Critique
A Time for Critique
Bernard E. Harcourt, Didier Fassin
Death of a Traveller
Death of a Traveller
Didier Fassin
Prison Worlds
Prison Worlds
Didier Fassin
When Bodies Remember
When Bodies Remember
Didier Fassin

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