Éric Fassin
Éric Fassin is a professor of sociology and gender studies at Université Paris 8, affiliated with the research center SOPHIAPOL, and a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He works on gender, sexuality, race and immigration as democratic issues. He defines himself as a sociologue engagé, whose public interventions are related to his academic work (and vice-versa). Among his recent publications: 'State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender & Race. Illiberal France and Beyond,' CEU Press, Budapest, 2024; Forthcoming: 'La Savante et le politique. Ce que le féminisme fait aux sciences sociales' (with Caroline Ibos), Paris, PUF, 2025).
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Part of a series discussing Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience, edited by Paloma Gay y Blasco and Martin Fotta (Berghahn: New York and Oxford, 2023). Covid-19 is a pandemic that has to be approached as syndemic. This is what Yasar Abu Ghosh convincingly argues in this deeply disturbing and profoundly illuminating […]
