The Carceral Condition in a Punitive Time

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Workshop Critical reflections on punishment, confinement and spaces of exclusion in contemporary states

Organised by the Social Critiques of Law Research Group (SoCriL, Kent Law School), in association with the Kent’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Spatial Studies (KISS)

On 13 June 2016, Kent Law School and SoCriL will be hosting Professor Didier Fassin (in association with the Kent’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Spatial Studies)., For more information and to attend please visit our website: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/socril/events/2016/fassin-lecture.html

Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Prof. Fassin is an anthropologist and a sociologist who has conducted fieldwork in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and public health, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminating important dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, mortality disparities, and global health. He later developed the field of critical moral anthropology, which explores the historical, social, and political signification of moral forms involved in everyday judgment and action as well as in the making of international relations with humanitarianism. He recently conducted an ethnography of the state, through a study of urban policing as well as the justice and prison systems in France. His current work is on punishment, asylum, inequality, and the politics of life, and he is developing a reflection on the public presence of the social sciences. His books include The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011), Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (2013), At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (2015). He is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Prison Worlds. An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Polity Press).

Full programme here.