Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation by Didier
Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social
Science, was published on July 6, 2021, by Polity:
“It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the
Traveller community...
Recently, societies have become more repressive, their laws more
relentless, their magistrates more inflexible, independently of the
evolution of crime. In this book, using genealogical and
ethnographic approaches, anthropologist Didier Fassin...
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of
Social Science, has authored Punir: Une Passion Contemporaine (Seuil,
2017), an exploration of punishment from a genealogical and
ethnographic perspective. In this book, Fassin engages...
