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Core Texts

If you will be taking this module in 2016-17 please buy copies only of those texts marked with an asterisk (*), below. Where a particular edition has been specified please try to buy this one as page references will be given to that edition in lectures, handouts, etc.

  • Artières, Philippe (ed.), Le Groupe d'information sur les prisons : intolérable (Paris: Verticales, 2013)*
  • Boukhrief, Nicolas, Made in France (2014). Available from the TRC and via Moodle.
  • Charrière, Henri, Papillon (Paris: Laffont, 1969)* [please buy the Laffont 'Pocket' edition]
  • Fassin, Didier, La Force de l'ordre: une anthropologie de la police des quartiers (Paris: Seuil, 2011), pp. 259-284 as scanned extract
  • Faucon, Philippe, La Désintégration (2012). Available from the TRC and via Moodle.
  • Ferrari, Jérôme, Où j'ai laissé mon âme (Arles: Actes Sud, 2010)* [please buy the Actes Sud 'Babel' edition at approx. €7] Genet, Jean, Miracle de la rose (Paris: Gallimard, Folio ed.)*
  • Genet, Jean, Miracle de la rose (1946). Please buy the edition that looks like this:

    miracle

  • Mattelart, Armand & Vitalis, André, Le profilage des populations: du livret ouvrier au cybercontrôle (Paris: La Découverte, 2014), pp. 123-155 as scanned extract
  • Rancière, Jacques, La Mésentente (Paris: Galilée, 1995), pp. 51-60 as scanned extract
  • Rancière, Jacques, 'Dix thèses sur la politique', in Aux bords du politique (Paris: Gallimard, 1998), pp. 240-54 (theses 7-10) as scanned extract
  • Resnais, Alain, Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour (Film: 1963). Available from the TRC.
  • Todd, Emmanuel, 'Une crise religieuse', Qui est Charlie? Sociologie d'une crise religieuse (Paris: Seuil, 2015), ch.1, pp. 27-66, available as a scanned extract.