Name: Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation
SKU: 53330415
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Author: Didier Fassin
ISBN: 9781509547418

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Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation

Type

Physical Book

Author

Didier Fassin

Publisher

Polity Press

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781509547418

Edition No.

Synopsis "Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation"

It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the Traveller community is shot dead by a special unit of the French police on the family farm where he was hiding since he failed to return to prison after temporary release. The officers claim self-defense. The relatives, present at the scene, contest that claim. A case is opened, and it concludes with a dismissal that is upheld on appeal. Dismayed by these decisions, the family continues the struggle for truth and justice. Giving each account of the event the same credit, Didier Fassin conducts a counter-investigation, based on the re-examination of all the available details and on the interviews of its protagonists. A critical reflection on the work of police forces, the functioning of the justice system, and the conditions that make such tragedies possible and seldom punished, Death of a Traveller is also an attempt to restore to these marginalized communities what they are usually denied: respectability.

Didier Fassin

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Antropólogo, médico y sociólogo, Didier Fassin es profesor del Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), director de estudios de la École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) y ocupa una cátedra en el Collège de France. Autor de una bibliografía ingente, entre sus últimas publicaciones destacan Des maux indicibles. Sociologie des lieux d’écoute (2004), Quand les corps se souviennent. Expérience et politiques du sida en Afrique du sud (2006), La Raison humanitaire. Une histoire morale du temps présent (2010), La force de l’ordre. Une anthropologie de la pólice des quartiers (2011), Moral Anthropology (2012), L’ombre du monde. Une anthropologie de la condition carcérale (2017), Punir. Une passion contemporaine (2017), Le monde à l’épreuve de l’asile (2017), If Truth Be Told. The Politics of Public Ethnography (2017), Writing the World of Policing. The Difference Ethnography Makes (2017), La Vie. Mode d’emploi critique (2018), Deepening Divides. How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate our World (2019), Pandemic Exposures (con M. Fourcade, 2021), Words and Worlds (con V. Das, 2021), Rebel Economies (con N. Di Cosmo y Cl. Pinaud, 2021), La Société qui vient (2022), Vies invisibles, morts indicibles (2022), Crisis Under Critique (con A. Honneth, 2022) y The Social Sciences in the Looking-Glass (con G. Steinmetz, 2023).

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