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Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
- D. Fassin
- Political Science
- 3 October 2011
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… Expand
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood
- D. Fassin, R. Rechtman, R. Gomme
- Psychology
- 26 July 2009
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood makes a signal contribution to the genre of “the history of the present.” It uses the apparently unremarkable fact that victims of… Expand
Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France
- D. Fassin
- Sociology
- 1 August 2005
Immigration policies in Europe in the last three decades have become increasingly restrictive. During the 1990s, political asylum lost much of its legitimacy, as new criteria based on humanitarian… Expand
Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life
- D. Fassin
- Sociology
- 1 September 2007
On March 28, 2003, as on the last Friday of every month, the board of administrators of Medecins sans frontieres (MSF; Doctors without Borders) met between five and eleven o’clock in the… Expand
Another Politics of Life is Possible
- D. Fassin
- Sociology
- 11 August 2009
Although it is usually assumed that in Michel Foucault’s work biopolitics is a politics which has life for its object, a closer analysis of the courses he gave at the Collège de France on this topic,… Expand
The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate
- D. Fassin
- Sociology
- 1 February 2001
L'A. examine les consequences de l'irruption dans la sphere publique francaise de deux thematiques qui ont marque le debat sur l'immigration au cours des annees quatre-ving-dix : la question des… Expand
The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies
- D. Fassin, H. Schneider
- Medicine
- BMJ : British Medical Journal
- 1 March 2003
Discussion of AIDS in South Africa needs to move beyond a simplistic “for or against” stance on President Mbeki's denial of a connection between HIV and AIDS. The authors propose ways to widen the… Expand
A companion to moral anthropology
- D. Fassin
- Sociology
- 2012
A Companion to Moral Anthropology is the first collective consideration of the anthropological dimensions of morals, morality, and ethics. Original essays by international experts explore the various… Expand
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Les économies morales revisitées*
- D. Fassin
- History
- Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales
- 1 December 2009
Résumé Le concept d’économies morales, proposé par E.P. Thompson il y a quarante ans, a connu depuis lors un succès non démenti mais pourtant ambigu. D’abord, dans les années 1970 et 1980, repris par… Expand
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