From Ethnography to Ethno-graphic: Representing Work of the Police

Part of the Sawyer Seminar Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism
Friday, January 29, 2021

Event Description

During the 15 months between the death of Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore and subsequent unrest in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, and the deaths of the adolescents Moushin and Laramy and subsequent uprising in another Paris suburb, Villiers-le-Bel, in 2007, Dider Fassin conducted research on police work in poor neighborhoods on the outskirts of Paris. His research focused on the everyday life of the dreaded anti-crime squads, ordinary racial discrimination and the banality of violence. Fassin’s lecture will examine their echoes in the public sphere as events involving police abuses continue to unfold.

Opening remarks:

  • Laurie Kain Hart, UCLA Anthropoloy

Featuring:

  • Didier Fassin, Princeton University & Collège de France

In conversation with:

  • Aslı Ü. Bâli, The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
  • Aomar Boum, UCLA Anthropology

Moderated by:

  • Ippolytos Kalofonos, UCLA Center for Social Medicine and Humanities

Collaborated with the UCLA International Institute – Black Lives Matter Global Perspectives Webinar series; UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Co-sponsored by the Center for Social Medicine and the Humanities (Semel Institute); David Geffen School of Medicine, Global Health Program; UCLA Department of Anthropology