Didier Fassin Archives - Public Seminar

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part III

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 22, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the final segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The first two segments tracked the inner ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part II

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 21, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the second segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University of Virginia. The previous piece laid the groundwork detailing ...

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Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

The LAPD and the Rodney King Affair

February 20, 2018 • by Eileen Chen

Below is the first segment of a three part series examining the history of police brutality in Los Angeles leading up to the brutal beating of Rodney King. This series was originally a paper submitted for the Sociology of Power and Authority class taught by Isaac Ariail Reed at University ...

Violence is What We Were Paid To Do, Part I

Politics

Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part II

January 31, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the second segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. While Kojève offered us a fully formed taxonomy of authority, complete with four pure types of authority and their attendant legitimating theories, Hannah Arendt in her text On Violence, published ...

Politics

Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part I

January 29, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the first segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. The specific characteristics of political authority, political power, and political violence have only grown more complex in the modern era, and the lessons offered by philosophers of the past ...

Politics

Sociology of Power and Authority

Fall 2017 at University of Virginia

January 23, 2018 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

The Sociology of Power and Authority was offered in Fall 2017 at the University of Virginia. It was an upper-division undergraduate seminar with 20 students, meeting for an hour and fifteen minutes twice a week. On the first day of the course, several students revealed, unprompted, that they had been ...

Power and Crisis

The Problem with Humanitarian Borders

Toward a new framework of justice

September 18, 2015 • by Miriam Ticktin

The language of humanitarianism has played a central role in recent political and media debates about undocumented migrants crossing into Europe and North America. The unaccompanied minors crossing into the United States reached the designation of “humanitarian crisis” last summer, i.e. 2014, whereas the most recent tipping point ...