Éric Fassin: Why the Roma?

In response to the recent deportations of Roma from France, we invited sociologist Éric Fassin to give us his account of why the Roma are being stigmatised by the Sarkozy administration.

In this translation of a talk he gave last month at a public event in Montreuil, France, Éric explains the symbolic links between Roma and Muslims, and suggests the concept of the 'floating signified' to explain the rhetorical circulation of the 'othering' of multiple groups.

Photo: Éric Fassin

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TCS Special on Ricoeur - Out Now!

The new issue of TCS (vol 27, issue 5) is out now, featuring a Special Section on Paul Ricoeur. The Section is edited and introduced by Steve Hedley Clark, and features translations of two Ricoeur articles, as well as new articles by Lisa Jones, Alison Scott-Baumann and Adam Piette.




The issue also includes two standard articles: Leonhard Praeg's 'Of Evil and Other Figures of the Liminal' and Leslie Sklair's 'Iconic Architecture and the Culture-ideology of Consumerism'.

Over the next few weeks on the TCS Blog, we'll have interviews with all the contributors to the section on Ricoeur, a report on Fonds Ricoeur (the Ricoeur archives in Paris), and an introduction on 'how to read Ricoeur' by Alison Scott-Baumann.

You can access all the articles in this issue of TCS here
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