Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Bruno Perreau (PhD, Paris I Sorbonne) is the Cynthia L. Reed Associate Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Non-Resident Faculty at the Center for European Studies, Harvard.For ten years, he has taught Political Science, Gender and Queer Studies at Sciences Po, where he opened a course on gay politics with professor Françoise Gaspard in 2006. Bruno Perreau was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2007-2008, a Newton Fellow in Sociology and a Jesus College Research Associate at the University of Cambridge from 2011 to 2014. In 2014-2015, he was a Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center.Perreau’s research investigates how the law is manufactured in contemporary Western societies. How are juridical categories instituted and, once they are, why do they seem so obvious? While the law is often thought of as nothing more than a technique, Perreau explores its social, political, and aesthetic foundations: what conditions have to be in place for a policy to be successful and become law? His work shows that “nature” is one of the main registers undergirding the manufacture of law today: law is often thought to do no more than translate natural distinctions among individuals (whether based on sex, age, race, or sexual orientation) but also among individuals and things (through the notion of property, ethical oversight on interventions on the human body, or the control of reproduction). Western societies have thus built an imaginary construction of nature under whose light our relation to community is elaborated, a relation commonly designated as “culture.” Perreau maintains that Western societies think culture as if it were a “second nature.” Starting with an epistemological line of enquiry, Perreau’s research has very concrete repercussions. He asks how have our daily lives been marked by this imaginary construction of nature, whether in terms of our nationality, our relations to family, our social tastes or our identities?"@en }
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- Bruno_Perreau abstract "Bruno Perreau (PhD, Paris I Sorbonne) is the Cynthia L. Reed Associate Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Non-Resident Faculty at the Center for European Studies, Harvard.For ten years, he has taught Political Science, Gender and Queer Studies at Sciences Po, where he opened a course on gay politics with professor Françoise Gaspard in 2006. Bruno Perreau was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) in 2007-2008, a Newton Fellow in Sociology and a Jesus College Research Associate at the University of Cambridge from 2011 to 2014. In 2014-2015, he was a Fellow at Stanford Humanities Center.Perreau’s research investigates how the law is manufactured in contemporary Western societies. How are juridical categories instituted and, once they are, why do they seem so obvious? While the law is often thought of as nothing more than a technique, Perreau explores its social, political, and aesthetic foundations: what conditions have to be in place for a policy to be successful and become law? His work shows that “nature” is one of the main registers undergirding the manufacture of law today: law is often thought to do no more than translate natural distinctions among individuals (whether based on sex, age, race, or sexual orientation) but also among individuals and things (through the notion of property, ethical oversight on interventions on the human body, or the control of reproduction). Western societies have thus built an imaginary construction of nature under whose light our relation to community is elaborated, a relation commonly designated as “culture.” Perreau maintains that Western societies think culture as if it were a “second nature.” Starting with an epistemological line of enquiry, Perreau’s research has very concrete repercussions. He asks how have our daily lives been marked by this imaginary construction of nature, whether in terms of our nationality, our relations to family, our social tastes or our identities?".