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Didier Fassin is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with 17 publications in this field. More specifically, their work spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, and Philosophy.

Their main topics of research cover a range of social and political issues such as multiculturalism, politics, migration, and gender. Additional areas of focus include French urban and social studies, education, sociology, and vocational training, as well as specific regional conflicts like those in the Middle East and Rwanda. The study of rhetoric and communication, along with subjects related to migration, health, and trauma, also figure prominently in their work.

Fassin has authored several recent papers, including:

  • "Crisis as experience and politics" (2022) published in Global Discourse
  • "The Rhetoric of Denial: Contribution to an Archive of the Debate about Mass Violence in Gaza" (2024) published in Journal of Genocide Research
  • "Un ethos compassionevole. La sofferenza come linguaggio, l'ascolto come politica" (2024) published in DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
  • "Displaced people's perilous journeys: border violence as a public health issue" (2023) published in The Lancet
  • "A biopolítica não é uma política da vida" (2023) published in PÓS Revista do Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da EBA/UFMG

This research has appeared in various academic venues such as Global Discourse, Journal of Genocide Research, The Lancet, DOAJ, and Recherches Internationales. Their work has been cited in multiple contexts related to social and political sciences.

Fassin has also contributed to book publications through Collège de France eBooks, with titles including "On the Inequality of Lives" (2023) and "Vies invisibles, morts indicibles" (2022).

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their scholarship, as shown by frequent co-authors:

  • Clara Han
  • Robert Desjarlais
  • Harri Englund
  • Angela Garcia
  • Junko Kitanaka

Best Publications

  • Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present

    Didier Fassin

  • The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood

    Didier Fassin;Richard Rechtman;Rachel Gomme

  • Compassion and Repression: The Moral Economy of Immigration Policies in France

    Didier Fassin

  • Policing Borders, Producing Boundaries. The Governmentality of Immigration in Dark Times*

    Didier Fassin

  • Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing

    Didier Fassin

  • When Bodies Remember: Experiences and Politics of AIDS in South Africa

    Didier Fassin

  • Humanitarianism as a Politics of Life

    Didier Fassin

  • Another Politics of Life is Possible

    Didier Fassin

  • De la question sociale à la question raciale ? : Représenter la société française

    Didier Fassin;Éric Fassin;Stéphane Beaud

  • Les économies morales revisitées

    Didier Fassin

  • L'Empire du traumatisme. Enquête sur la condition de victime

    Didier Fassin;Richard Rechtman

  • The biopolitics of otherness: Undocumented foreigners and racial discrimination in French public debate

    Didier Fassin

  • The truth from the body : Medical certificates as ultimate evidence for asylum seekers

    Didier Fassin;Estelle D'halluin

  • Contemporary states of emergency : the politics of military and humanitarian interventions

    Didier Fassin;Mariella Pandolfi

  • Le gouvernement des corps

    Didier Fassin;Dominique Memmi

  • L'invention française de la discrimination

    Didier Fassin

  • THE HUMANITARIAN POLITICS OF TESTIMONY: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict

    Didier Fassin

  • The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies

    Didier Fassin;Helen Schneider

  • WHY ETHNOGRAPHY MATTERS: On Anthropology and Its Publics

    Didier Fassin

  • The Precarious Truth of Asylum

    Didier Fassin

  • De la question sociale à la question raciale&nbsp?: Représenter la société française

    Éric Fassin;Didier Fassin

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen Schneider
Helen Schneider University of the Western Cape
Christine Katlama
Christine Katlama Sorbonne University
Bronislaw Malinowski
Bronislaw Malinowski London School of Economics and Political Science
Clifford Geertz
Clifford Geertz Institute for Advanced Study
Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim Université Paris Cité

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