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His writings provide a profound lens on the intersections of politics, society, and individual experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"moral-abdication-by-didier-fassin-9781804299678","title":"Moral Abdication","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsent to the obliteration of Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large sections of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel against Palestinians after Hamas's attack on 7 October 2023 and silenced voices calling for a ceasefire, a just peace and a respect of international law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot only have buildings been devastated and civilians massacred, but also language and thought have been damaged. Providing an archive of the first six months of the war, nourished by multiple sources, \u003cem\u003eMoral Abdication\u003c\/em\u003e examines how the past of occupation and oppression of Palestine has been negated, how a vocabulary and a grammar of facts have been imposed, and how accusations of antisemitism have produced censorship and self-censorship. It also investigates how mainstream media have been restrained and biased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book addresses the acceptance of the unequal worth of lives and the differential treatment of deaths. It questions the invocation of the existential threat for Israel and the debt contracted because of the Holocaust. It analyses how the geopolitical and economic stakes in the Middle East, along with the growing rejection of Muslims and Arabs, have contributed to the abdication of values and principles claimed as foundational.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340933742828,"sku":"9781804299678","price":19.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11011083482830.jpg?v=1772177877"},{"product_id":"exile-by-didier-fassin-9781509568598","title":"Exile","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fuelled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers, and externalise border monitoring in remote territories. Men, women, and children who flee political violence, religious persecution, or poverty in their country and set off on journeys often lasting years may find themselves on dangerous routes where they face police brutality, gang rackets, confinement camps, barbed-wire fences, the rigours of the desert, and the perils of the sea. Many lose their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut what do we really know about the experience of these people, the hazards they encounter, repression they endure, and the assistance they receive? This is what Didier Fassin and Anne-Claire Defossez set out to uncover through the research they conducted at the border between Italy and France, in a region of the Alps that has become, since the mid-2010s, a privileged site of passage for people arriving in Europe from Afghanistan, Iran, the Maghreb, and sub-Saharan Africa. Over a period of five years, they collected their poignant stories, participated in the activities of a shelter, took part in mountain rescue operations, and interviewed politicians, policymakers, and law enforcement officers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheir investigation reveals the ineffectiveness of the militarisation of the border and the dismay of the police who are aware of the futility of their mission; it attests to the solidarity and commitment of the volunteers; and it explores the form of life of exiles, which has become a defining feature of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis timely and well-researched book will be of great value to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, politics, and geography, and to anyone interested in migration and refugees today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362565177580,"sku":"9781509568598","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12708233482725.jpg?v=1772893492"},{"product_id":"death-of-a-traveller-by-didier-fassin-9781509547418","title":"Death of a Traveller","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt 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-defence. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGiving 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, \u003cem\u003eDeath of a Traveller\u003c\/em\u003e is also an attempt to restore to these marginalized communities what they are usually denied: respectability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383767711980,"sku":"9781509547418","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/12496433482725.jpg?v=1773379122"},{"product_id":"humanitarian-reason-by-didier-fassin-9780520271173","title":"Humanitarian Reason","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe traces and analyses recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices—what he terms \u003cem\u003ehumanitarian reason\u003c\/em\u003e—and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. Deftly illuminating the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian government, he reveals the ambiguities confronting states and organisations as they struggle to deal with the intolerable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHis critique of \u003cem\u003ehumanitarian reason\u003c\/em\u003e, respectful of the participants involved but lucid about the stakes they disregard, offers theoretical and empirical foundations for a political and moral anthropology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470847328492,"sku":"9780520271173","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c5e2bb3a5b3e8b6f7861ccbd8b0420df.jpg?v=1775792982"},{"product_id":"pandemic-exposures-economy-and-society-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-by-didier-fassin-9781912808809","title":"Pandemic Exposures – Economy and Society in the Time of Coronavirus","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor people and governments around the world, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic seemed to place the preservation of human life at odds with the pursuit of economic and social life. Yet this simple alternative belies the complexity of the entanglements the crisis has created and revealed, not just between health and wealth but also around morality, knowledge, governance, culture, and everyday subsistence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDidier Fassin and Marion Fourcade have assembled an eminent team of scholars from across the social sciences, conducting research on six continents, to reflect on the multiple ways the coronavirus has entered, reshaped, or exacerbated existing trends and structures in every part of the globe. The contributors show how the disruptions caused by the pandemic have both hastened the rise of new social divisions and hardened old inequalities and dilemmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn indispensable volume, \u003ci\u003ePandemic Exposures\u003c\/i\u003e provides an illuminating analysis of this watershed moment and its possible aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487447335148,"sku":"9781912808809","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/ababa40b0252aeaad2d3d20f59b9ec20.jpg?v=1775776889"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/didier-fassin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}