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Jan 6, 2025 | 
versobooks.com | Didier Fassin
The following is an excerpt taken from Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza by Didier Fassin. The present crisis is one of the deepest experiences since the time, nearly eight decades ago, when people first proclaimed: ‘Never again.’ But here, the word ‘crisis’ does not refer to the situation in Gaza.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Didier Fassin |Gideon Levy
Jean Améry, the pseudonym of Austrian-Jewish writer Hanns Chaim Mayer, drew deeply from his personal experiences as a member of the resistance movement against the Nazi occupation of Belgium. After being captured by the German Gestapo, tortured, and later imprisoned in concentration camps, his literature and philosophy became profoundly informed by the atrocities he endured.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Eyal Weizman |Gideon Levy |Ilan Pappe |Didier Fassin
On 29 October, 2023, a video of a young Palestinian in Gaza went viral on TikTok. He holds a clip-on microphone and greets his audience after a period of internet and communication disruption. A soundtrack of broadcast music has been added in the video's post-production. Behind him, people line up in what he describes as a queue for bread at one of the few bakeries still operating in the north of the Gaza Strip.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Didier Fassin
Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and often contributed to the destruction, by the Israeli army, of Gaza, its homes, infr
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
ias.edu | Lorenzo Alunni |Didier Fassin
In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Didier Fassin, James D.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Didier Fassin
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
msn.com | Didier Fassin
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Didier Fassin
The image was an oxymoron. Earlier this month, in a luxurious Parisian venue, Emmanuel Macron stood in front of a whitewall on which one word was inscribed in large letters: ensemble, meaning “together”.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
tandfonline.com | Didier Fassin
View latest articles Next article In 1991, the economist Albert Hirschman, then professor at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, published The Rhetoric of Reaction, in which he endeavoured to apprehend how conservative intellectuals and politicians had combatted civil, political, and social citizenship over three centuries.
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Nov 22, 2023 | 
fabula.org | Didier Fassin
« Nommer la crise, c’est souvent s’exposer au risque de se priver de la penser. »Écologique, sanitaire, énergétique, économique, sociale, humanitaire, démocratique : les crises sont une composante essentielle du monde contemporain.
