Museen, Kunst, Luxusgüter, Immobilien, Tourismus – für Luc Boltanski und Arnaud Esquerre sind dies zentrale Felder einer neuen Ökonomie, eines neuen Kapitalismus. Dieser prägt zunehmend unsere Gesellschaften und dient vor allem der Bereicherung der...

Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United...

At the height of the Second World War, Switzerland decriminalised homosexuality. At the same time, France chose to introduce a law punishing homosexual relationships in certain circumstances. These two examples illustrate contradictory attitudes...

I sentimenti morali sono diventati uno strumento politico fondamentale per rispondere ai disordini del mondo. Che si tratti di gestire poveri e rifugiati, di soccorrere le vittime di catastrofi o di giustificare interventi militari, a dispiegarsi è...

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 ...

En este libro, el brillante antropólogo Didier Fassin examina el mayor desafío al orden moral que hoy enfrentan las sociedades occidentales: extranjeros, refugiados, asilados e indocumentados en las grandes ciudades interpelan a los Estados y a su...

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...

War and Other Means describes and analyses the practices of war, the ‘objects of war’ and the conventions of the use of violence in Houaïlou, New Caledonia. It focuses on the colonial repression conducted in 1856 and after, the anti-sorcerer hunt in...

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of...