Ethnography

Elisabeth von Thadden of Die Zeit writes about Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, on the occasion of the publication of Fassin's Das Leben: Eine kritische Gebrauchsanweisung (Suhrkamp Verlag, 2017), which...

In his fall books preview, constituted by works he classifies as studies of “surveillance society and its discontents,” Scott McLemme of Inside Higher Ed includes Writing the World of Policing: The Difference Ethnography Makes (University of Chicago...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, discusses ethnography and theory with Harry Kreisler, host of the Conversations with History series at UC Berkeley. View the talk at https://youtu.be/pNsG5wDWmhw.