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Cover -- Half-title page -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Problematization -- The Birth of Public Health (14 April 2021) -- The Truth in Numbers (5 May 2021) -- Epistemic Boundaries (12 May 2021) -- Conspiracy Theories (19 May 2021) -- Ethical Crises (26 May 2021) -- Precarious Exiles (2 June 2021) -- Carceral Ordeals (9 June 2021) -- Readings of the Pandemic (16 June 2021) -- Notes -- References -- Index.

"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 conducted on three continents and drawing on the ideas of Wittgenstein, Benjamin and Foucault, Didier Fassin attempts to do so by developing three concepts: forms of life, ethics of life and politics of life. In the conditions of refugees and asylum-seekers, through humanitarian gestures and sacrifices for a cause, in light of mortality statistics and death benefits, and via a genealogical and ethnographical inquiry, the moral economy of life reveals troubling tensions in the way contemporary societies treat human beings. Once the pieces of this anthropological composition are assembled, like in Georges Perec's jigsaw puzzle, an image appears: that of unequal lives. Emerging from the prestigious Adorno Lectures delivered by Fassin in 2016, this profound investigation of life in contemporary societies, enriched by ethnographic fieldwork and written by one of the most distinguished anthropologists today, will be of great interest to readers across the humanities and social sciences"--

"Au cours des dernières décennies, la plupart des sociétés se sont faites plus répressives, leurs lois plus sévères, leurs juges plus inflexibles, et ceci s'ans lien direct avec l'évolution de la délinquance et de la criminalité. Dans ce livre, qui met en oeuvre une approche à la fois généalogique et ethnographique, Didier Fassin s'efforce de saisir les enjeux de ce moment punitif en repartant des fondements mêmes du châtiment. Qu'est-ce que punir? Pourquoi punit-on ? Qui punit-on' À travers ces trois questions, il engage un dialogue critique avec la philosophie morale et la théorie juridique. Puisant ses illustrations dans des contextes historiques et nationaux variés, il montre notamment que la réponse au crime n'a pas toujours été associée à l'infliction d'une souffrance, que le châtiment ne procède pas seulement des logiques rationnelles servant à le légitimer et que l'alourdissement des peines a souvent pour résultat de les différencier socialement, et donc d'accroître les inégalités. À rebours du populisme pénal triomphant. Cette enquête propose tille salutaire révision des présupposés qui nourrissent la passion de punir et invite à repenser la place du châtiment dans le monde contemporain."--Page 4 of cover

Introduction: ethnographying the police / Didier Fassin -- Position. Accountability: ethnographic engagement and the ethics of the police (United States) / Steve Herbert ; Complicity: becoming the police (South Africa) / Julia Hornberger ; Intimacy: personal policing, ethnographic kinship, and critical empathy (India) / Beatrice Jauregui ; Affect: the virtual force of policing (Taiwan) / Jeffrey T. Martin -- Observation. Predicament: interpreting police violence (Mozambique) / Helene Maria Kyed ; Morality: understanding police training on human rights (Turkey) / Elif Babul ; Experience: being policed as a condition of life (Chile) / Clara Han ; Aspiration: hoping for a public policing (Bolivia) / Daniel M. Goldstein -- Description. Sense and sensibility: crafting tales about the police (Thailand) / Duncan McCargo ; Detention: police discretion revisited (Portugal) / Susana Durao ; Alibi: the extralegal force embedded in the law (United States) / Laurence Ralph ; Boredom: accounting for the ordinary in the work of policing (France) / Didier Fassin

Introduction: when ethnography goes public / Didier Fassin -- Strategies -- Gopher, translator, and trickster : the ethnographer and the media / Gabriella Coleman -- What is a public intervention? : speaking truth to the oppressed / Ghassan Hage -- Before the commission: ethnography as public testimony / Kelly Gillespie -- Addressing policy-oriented audiences: relevance and persuasiveness / Manuela Ivone Cunha -- Engagements -- Serendipitous involvement : making peace in the geto / Federico Neiburg -- Tactical versus critical : indigenizing public ethnography / Lucas Bessire -- Experto crede? : a legal and political conundrum / Jonathan Benthall -- Policy ethnography as a combat sport : analyzing the welfare state against the grain / Vincent Dubois -- Tensions -- Academic freedom at risk : the occasional worldliness of scholarly texts / Nadia Abu El-Haj -- Perils and prospects of going public : between academia and real life / Unni Wikan -- Ethnography prosecuted : facing the fabulation of power / Jo?o Biehl -- How publics shape ethnographers : translating across divided audiences / Sherine Hamdy -- Epilogue: the public afterlife of ethnography / Didier Fassin

"As policing has recently become a major topic of public debate, it was also a growing area of ethnographic research. Writing the World of Policing brings together an international roster of scholars who have conducted fieldwork studies of law enforcement in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods on five continents. How, they ask, can ethnography illuminate the role of the police in society? Are there important aspects of policing that are not captured through interviews and statistics? And how can the study of law enforcement shed light on the practice of ethnography? What might studying policing teach us about the epistemological and ethical challenges of participant observation? Beyond these questions of crucial interest for criminology and, more generally, the social sciences, Writing the World of Policing provides a timely discussion of one of the most problematic institutions in contemporary society."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Preface to the English Edition - A World of Prisons -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue - Where It All Begins -- Introduction - The Expanding Prison -- Notes -- 1 - For Whom the Cell Fills -- Notes -- 2 - A Well-Kept Public Secret -- Notes -- 3 - Ye Who Enter Here -- Notes -- 4 - Life in Prison: A User's Manual -- Notes -- 5 - In the Nature of Things -- Notes -- 6 - A Profession in Search of Honor -- Notes -- 7 - Violent, All Too Violent -- Notes -- 8 - Rights, Interrupted -- Notes -- 9 - Land of Order and Security -- Notes -- 10 - The Never-Ending Punishment

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 currents, approaches, and issues in this important new discipline, examining topics such as the ethnography of moralities, the study of moral subjectivities, and the exploration of moral economies. * Investigates the central legacies of moral anthropology, the formation of moral facts and values, the context of local moralities, and the frontiers between moralities, politics, humanitarianism * Features contributions from pioneers in the field of moral anthropology, as well as international experts in related fields such as moral philosophy, moral psychology, evolutionary biology and neuroethics