In Conversation with Sindre Bangstad and Paul Wenzel Geissler About Anthropology’s Great Expectations. Conducted via E-Mail Correspondence in October/November 2016.

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ID23403328
AuthorsD Fassin (0000-0002-7684-2410, Institute for Advanced Study, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages109-130
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueAnthropology of Our Times (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-53849-9_6
OpenAlexW2739084942
ISBN9781137538499
LanguageEN
References cited17

This chapter is based on an e-mail correspondence between Prof Didier FassinFassin, Didier (Institute For Advanced Study, Princeton), Sindre Bangstad and Prof Paul Wenzel GeisslerGeissler, Paul Wenzel (University of Oslo) about “anthropology’s great expectations”, conducted in December 2015. The conversation details Fassin’s transition from work as a physician trained in internal medicine and public health treating HIV patients in Paris in the 1980s, to that of an anthropologist studying AIDS as an epidemiological and political crisis in post-apartheid South AfricaAfrica in the 2000s. Fassin, one of the most cited and prolific anthropologists of our times, who regularly writes for non-anthropological audiences both in his native FranceFrance and in Anglo-Saxon publications, also talks about his visions concerning what he terms “public ethnographyPublic ethnography ”, and about his controversial ethnographic work on policing in the Parisian banlieues and on French prisonsPrisons .

Conversation · Ethnography · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · African Studies and Ethnography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · History · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health

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