Anthropology 2229F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter online reading: Ethnography, Sub-Saharan Africa
10 Apr 2018
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Matters: on anthropology and its publics by fassin 2013. The author reached their 15 minutes of fame due to the publication of la force de. L"ordre - une anthropologie de la police des quartiers in 2011. They wrote about law enforcement in the banlieues of paris whose neighbourhoods are of disadvantaged working class families from north and sub-saharan africa. This was the time of riots due to the deadly electrocution of adolescents that were wrongfully chased after by police. Many ethnic minority adolescents and youths dying as a result of interactions with law enforcement. Fassin wrote in a way that was legible to people and had a strong response by media. Police didn"t respond to it, their input never given. On november 18 two events changed the situation. The rst was the announcement of the 20th anniversary of the anticrime squad. The president claude gueant had made repressive and stigmatizing policies towards immigrants, minorities.
