Conférence de Barbara Thériault et d'Alexandra Schwell.
Barbara Thériault est professeure agrégée au Département de sociologie et directrice du Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes (CCEAE) de l'UdeM. Elle a obtenu son doctorat du Max Weber-Kolleg et son habilitation de l’Université européenne Viadrina avec son étude The Cop and the Sociologist: Investigating Diversity in German Police Forces.
Alexandra Schwell is an assistant professor (Universitätsassistentin) at the Department of European Ethnology, University of Vienna. Research interests include border studies, Eastern Europe, anthropology of security, state bureaucracies, European integration and her FP7 project “Football Research in an Enlarged Europe”- FREE (www.free-project.eu)
Résumé
Drawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today’s relations toward difference within German police forces. Accompanying and interviewing police officers whose job it is to contribute to the acknowledgement of difference, the sociologist outlines three ideal types of actors – an empathetic, a principled, and an opportunist one – and the motives underlying their actions. A fourth type, the spe-cialist, is conspicuously absent. Why is that so? Solving this enigma helps depicting the relations to difference within police forces: it points to a specific «spirit» of diversity and a singular way to apprehend the individual in Germany.
N.B. Veuillez prendre note que cette conférence sera donnée en partie en français (Mme Thériault), et en partie en anglais (Mme Schwell).
Conférence présentée par le Centre international de criminologie comparée
