Title :

At the Heart of the State
The Moral World of Institutions

Author(s) :

Fassin, Didier [Auteur]
Bouagga, Yasmine [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Coutant, Isabelle [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Eideliman, Jean-Sébastien [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" - ULR 3589 [CeRIES]
Fernandez, Fabrice [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Fischer, Nicolas [Auteur]
Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales [CESDIP]
Kobelinski, Carolina [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Makaremi, Chowra [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Mazouz, Sarah [Auteur]
Humboldt State University [HSU]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux Sociaux - sciences sociales, politique, santé [IRIS]
Roux, Sébastien [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary and Global Environmental Studies [iGLOBES]
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Solidarités, Sociétés, Territoires [LISST]

Publisher :

Pluto Press

Publication place :

Londres

Publication date :

2015-07

Number of pages :

288 p.

ISBN :

9780745335599

English keyword(s) :

police
justice
prison
Affects
Moral
Ethnography
asylum
France
mental health
education
State
institutions
moral economy

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

At the Heart of the State argues against the idea of government institutions as the tools of politics and politicians and explores the inherent morality—or immorality—of such institutions supposedly designed for the public ...
Show more >At the Heart of the State argues against the idea of government institutions as the tools of politics and politicians and explores the inherent morality—or immorality—of such institutions supposedly designed for the public good. The result of a five-year investigation, conducted by ten scholars, At the Heart of the State describes and analyses the police, court systems, prisons, social services, and mental health facilities of France, analyzing the supposed neutrality of these government institutions. Combining genealogy and ethnography, the authors argue that government institutions are not simply concerned with the implementation of laws, rules, and procedures but also with the imposition of values, affects, and judgments.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Structurations des mondes sociaux

Comment :

http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo20701891.htmlAnthropology, Culture and Society

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche "Individus Epreuves Sociétés" (CeRIES) - ULR 3589

Source :

Harvested from HAL