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| Franz Boas Seminars Fall Term 2012 |
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| Franz Boas Seminars Fall Term 2012 |
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Wednesday, November 28
Didier Fassin
James D. Wolfenson Professor of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
"Policing the Banlieues: An Ethnography of French Anticrime Squads"
4:10-6:00pm
Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study of Princeton and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important issues about the AIDS epidemic, social inequalities in health, and the changing landscape of global health. More recently, he has developed political and moral anthropology, and more specifically analyzed the reformulation of injustice and violence as suffering and trauma, the expansion of an international humanitarian government, and the contradictions in the contemporary politics of life. His present project, a contribution to an anthropology of the state, explores the political and moral treatment of disadvantaged groups, including immigrants and refugees, through an ethnography of police, justice, and prison.
Reception follows in the Anthropology Department Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Lounge, room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
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