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Didier Fassin

Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and Director of Studies in Anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. His recent publications include When Bodies Remember: Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa and (with Richard Rechtman) The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood.

Titles by This Editor

Contemporary States of Emergency

The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
Edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi

From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality.