J Billaud
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 16050 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Billaud |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Billaud |
| FIRMA | BILLAUD J |
| AFILIACIONES | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3205-7111 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Casualties of Care
This article is concerned with the ways in which humanitarian imaginaries in post-9/11 Afghanistan have shaped representations of women’s needs as well as programs designed to answer them. Its aim is to examine the ‘dark side’ of care and the politics of worthiness on which humanitarianism relies. In conversation with scholars who have highlighted the disciplinary aspects of care, I show how apparently well-intentioned humanitarian discourses and…
Humanitarian technologies of trust
What is trust, and how is it established in humanitarian operations? Why do humanitarians consider trust a vital resource in their work? Building on the International Committee of the Red Cross' response to urban violence and the anthropological literature that conceives trust both as a modern social virtue and a technology of power, I examine the ways in which trust is enacted and practiced in humanitarian settings. While the organisation's lega…
The bureaucratisation of utopia
Bureaucracies, whether national or international, have rarely been conceived as ‘utopian’ sites. On the contrary, classic representations tend to describe bureaucratic formations as ‘rationality machines’, administrations as homogeneous black boxes and bureaucrats as individuals working ‘without hatred or passion’ to implement a broader vision of which they remain largely ignorant. The idea for this special issue emerged out of a feeling of uneas…
Masters of disorder
The mandate of the ICRC as granted by the Geneva Conventions is to act as a ‘guardian of International Humanitarian Law’ on the frontlines of conflicts. While its humanitarian relief operations have contributed to its international reputation, this monitoring function is rather unknown to the public. In this paper, I pay specific attention to activities carried out by ICRC delegates to protect various categories of victims in times of war. By foc…
Posfácio - Acordos de Cooperação entre o Brasil e a França na área de sociologia rural e ambiental
.
Political Awakening
From Marx onward, social theorists have been preoccupied with the study of social domination and power. Since the 1980s, however, this research agenda has been complemented by resistance studies and the work of feminist anthropologists, which aim to explore social change and the complex ways in which political consciousness is socially, historically, and culturally formed
"Marriage "sharia style
The growing visibility of Islam in the public spaces of Western societies is often interpreted in the media as a sign of Muslim radicalisation. This article questions this postulate by examining the flourishing Muslim marriage industry in the UK. It argues that these 'halal' services, increasingly popular among the young generation of British Muslims, reflect the semantic shifting of categories away from the repertoire of Islamic jurisprudence to…
Depoimento de Jean Paul Billaud
Mariage « charia style
En Angleterre, l'industrie du mariage musulman est depuis une dizaine d'années en pleine expansion. Celle-ci comprend notamment des services de rencontres matrimoniales labellisés « halal ». Ces services de plus en plus populaires parmi la nouvelle génération de musulmans anglais témoignent du glissement de catégories qui jusqu'alors appartenaient au domaine de la jurisprudence islamique vers des labellisations culturelles et identitaires visible…
No wonder
Comment on "Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence in the Max Planck Society" by Vita Peacock, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2016
Snapshots of British Islam
This article seeks to capture the reconfigurations of Islamic morality in England through a collection of snapshots depicting the new actors who have made their apparition in public in the post 9/11 and 7/7 context. While underlying the unintended and paradoxical effects of neoliberalism and of state interventions in the domain of "race relations," it displaces current debates on "Islamism" from a focus on organized religious movements to one tha…
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order…
Between learning and schooling
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights monitoring mechanism which aims to promote a universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country’s human rights situation. To what extent are these laudable aims realised, and realisable, given entrenched representations of the West and the Rest as well as geopolitical and economic inequalities both historically …
Whores and NiqabÃ(c)es
This essay seeks to analyze the recent reconfigurations of French nationalism, taking as an entry point the legal treatment of veiled Muslim women and prostitutes over the past two decades. We argue that the bodies of prostitutes and veiled Muslim women, both of which have been targeted by successive legal interventions in order to exclude them from the public space, have become central political sites for the state to assert its sovereign power …
Suicidal Performances
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
This article seeks to characterise the nature of the post-Taliban 'reconstruction' project in Afghanistan through an analysis of observations and interviews collected in the Ministry of Women's Affairs (MoWA) in 2007. Based on a case study of a 'gender empowerment' training programme administered by the MoWA and funded by an international aid agency, I underline some intricacies in the relationships that are built in development encounters. I arg…
Remue-ménage dans la recherche publiqueTurbulences within french public research
De l'objet de l'interdisciplinarité à l'interdisciplinarité autour des objetsObjects and objectives of interdisciplinarity
Les pratiques que l’on a l’habitude de qualifier d’interdisciplinaires, sans que l’on precise toujours ce que l’on designe par cela, renvoient a une double dimension : cognitive, car elles mettent en jeu l’articulation entre differents champs disciplinaires, empirique car elles passent par des confrontations et des circulations de personnes (a commencer par les chercheurs) parmi des objets tres heterogenes, sinon heteroclites. Il est des situatio…
Between learning and schooling
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights monitoring mechanism which aims to promote a universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country’s human rights situation. To what extent are these laudable aims realised, and realisable, given entrenched representations of the West and the Rest as well as geopolitical and economic inequalities both historically …
No wonder
Comment on "Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence in the Max Planck Society" by Vita Peacock, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2016
Snapshots of British Islam
This article seeks to capture the reconfigurations of Islamic morality in England through a collection of snapshots depicting the new actors who have made their apparition in public in the post 9/11 and 7/7 context. While underlying the unintended and paradoxical effects of neoliberalism and of state interventions in the domain of "race relations," it displaces current debates on "Islamism" from a focus on organized religious movements to one tha…
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
This article seeks to characterise the nature of the post-Taliban 'reconstruction' project in Afghanistan through an analysis of observations and interviews collected in the Ministry of Women's Affairs (MoWA) in 2007. Based on a case study of a 'gender empowerment' training programme administered by the MoWA and funded by an international aid agency, I underline some intricacies in the relationships that are built in development encounters. I arg…
Humanitarian technologies of trust
What is trust, and how is it established in humanitarian operations? Why do humanitarians consider trust a vital resource in their work? Building on the International Committee of the Red Cross' response to urban violence and the anthropological literature that conceives trust both as a modern social virtue and a technology of power, I examine the ways in which trust is enacted and practiced in humanitarian settings. While the organisation's lega…
"Marriage "sharia style
The growing visibility of Islam in the public spaces of Western societies is often interpreted in the media as a sign of Muslim radicalisation. This article questions this postulate by examining the flourishing Muslim marriage industry in the UK. It argues that these 'halal' services, increasingly popular among the young generation of British Muslims, reflect the semantic shifting of categories away from the repertoire of Islamic jurisprudence to…
Whores and NiqabÃ(c)es
This essay seeks to analyze the recent reconfigurations of French nationalism, taking as an entry point the legal treatment of veiled Muslim women and prostitutes over the past two decades. We argue that the bodies of prostitutes and veiled Muslim women, both of which have been targeted by successive legal interventions in order to exclude them from the public space, have become central political sites for the state to assert its sovereign power …
Remue-ménage dans la recherche publiqueTurbulences within french public research
De l'objet de l'interdisciplinarité à l'interdisciplinarité autour des objetsObjects and objectives of interdisciplinarity
Les pratiques que l’on a l’habitude de qualifier d’interdisciplinaires, sans que l’on precise toujours ce que l’on designe par cela, renvoient a une double dimension : cognitive, car elles mettent en jeu l’articulation entre differents champs disciplinaires, empirique car elles passent par des confrontations et des circulations de personnes (a commencer par les chercheurs) parmi des objets tres heterogenes, sinon heteroclites. Il est des situatio…
Suicidal Performances
The Making of Modern Afghanistan
This article seeks to characterise the nature of the post-Taliban 'reconstruction' project in Afghanistan through an analysis of observations and interviews collected in the Ministry of Women's Affairs (MoWA) in 2007. Based on a case study of a 'gender empowerment' training programme administered by the MoWA and funded by an international aid agency, I underline some intricacies in the relationships that are built in development encounters. I arg…
Whores and NiqabÃ(c)es
This essay seeks to analyze the recent reconfigurations of French nationalism, taking as an entry point the legal treatment of veiled Muslim women and prostitutes over the past two decades. We argue that the bodies of prostitutes and veiled Muslim women, both of which have been targeted by successive legal interventions in order to exclude them from the public space, have become central political sites for the state to assert its sovereign power …
Human Rights and the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review is an intriguing and ambitious development in human rights monitoring which breaks new ground by engaging all 193 members of the United Nations. This book provides the first sustained analysis of the Review and explains how the Review functions within the architecture of the United Nations. It draws on socio-legal scholarship and the insights of human rights practitioners with direct experience of the Review in order…
Between learning and schooling
This paper explores the politics of monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a new United Nations human rights monitoring mechanism which aims to promote a universal approach and equal treatment when reviewing each country’s human rights situation. To what extent are these laudable aims realised, and realisable, given entrenched representations of the West and the Rest as well as geopolitical and economic inequalities both historically …
No wonder
Comment on "Academic precarity as hierarchical dependence in the Max Planck Society" by Vita Peacock, Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Volume 6, Issue 1, Summer 2016
Snapshots of British Islam
This article seeks to capture the reconfigurations of Islamic morality in England through a collection of snapshots depicting the new actors who have made their apparition in public in the post 9/11 and 7/7 context. While underlying the unintended and paradoxical effects of neoliberalism and of state interventions in the domain of "race relations," it displaces current debates on "Islamism" from a focus on organized religious movements to one tha…
Mariage « charia style
En Angleterre, l'industrie du mariage musulman est depuis une dizaine d'années en pleine expansion. Celle-ci comprend notamment des services de rencontres matrimoniales labellisés « halal ». Ces services de plus en plus populaires parmi la nouvelle génération de musulmans anglais témoignent du glissement de catégories qui jusqu'alors appartenaient au domaine de la jurisprudence islamique vers des labellisations culturelles et identitaires visible…
Political Awakening
From Marx onward, social theorists have been preoccupied with the study of social domination and power. Since the 1980s, however, this research agenda has been complemented by resistance studies and the work of feminist anthropologists, which aim to explore social change and the complex ways in which political consciousness is socially, historically, and culturally formed
"Marriage "sharia style
The growing visibility of Islam in the public spaces of Western societies is often interpreted in the media as a sign of Muslim radicalisation. This article questions this postulate by examining the flourishing Muslim marriage industry in the UK. It argues that these 'halal' services, increasingly popular among the young generation of British Muslims, reflect the semantic shifting of categories away from the repertoire of Islamic jurisprudence to…
Depoimento de Jean Paul Billaud
The bureaucratisation of utopia
Bureaucracies, whether national or international, have rarely been conceived as ‘utopian’ sites. On the contrary, classic representations tend to describe bureaucratic formations as ‘rationality machines’, administrations as homogeneous black boxes and bureaucrats as individuals working ‘without hatred or passion’ to implement a broader vision of which they remain largely ignorant. The idea for this special issue emerged out of a feeling of uneas…
Masters of disorder
The mandate of the ICRC as granted by the Geneva Conventions is to act as a ‘guardian of International Humanitarian Law’ on the frontlines of conflicts. While its humanitarian relief operations have contributed to its international reputation, this monitoring function is rather unknown to the public. In this paper, I pay specific attention to activities carried out by ICRC delegates to protect various categories of victims in times of war. By foc…
Posfácio - Acordos de Cooperação entre o Brasil e a França na área de sociologia rural e ambiental
.
Humanitarian technologies of trust
What is trust, and how is it established in humanitarian operations? Why do humanitarians consider trust a vital resource in their work? Building on the International Committee of the Red Cross' response to urban violence and the anthropological literature that conceives trust both as a modern social virtue and a technology of power, I examine the ways in which trust is enacted and practiced in humanitarian settings. While the organisation's lega…
Casualties of Care
This article is concerned with the ways in which humanitarian imaginaries in post-9/11 Afghanistan have shaped representations of women’s needs as well as programs designed to answer them. Its aim is to examine the ‘dark side’ of care and the politics of worthiness on which humanitarianism relies. In conversation with scholars who have highlighted the disciplinary aspects of care, I show how apparently well-intentioned humanitarian discourses and…
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