Chercheurs

Anthropologie / BOURGOIS, PHILIPPE

bourgoi

Position

Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, U.S.A.

Thèmes de recherche

Medical anthropology, cultural production, political economy, urban anthropology, substance abuse, HIV prevention, violence, ethnography, ethnicity and immigration, inner city social suffering. His most recent work focuses on substance abuse, violence, homelessness, and HIV-prevention.

Prix et récompenses

2000 Centre National des Lettres Translation Prize from the French Ministry of Culture.
1997 Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology.
1996 C. Wright Mills Prize from the Society for the Study of Social Problems of the American Sociological Association.
1996 Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing (honorable mention) from the Society for Humanistic Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
1996 Anthony Leeds Prize (honorable mention) from the Society for Urban Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
1996 Robert Park Award for Community Studies (finalist) of the American Sociological Association.
1996 Association of American Publishers Scholarly Publishing Division prize (honorable mention).

Fieldwork :
1999-present Follow up fieldwork among children of former crack dealers in East Harlem (visits).

1999-present Follow up fieldwork among Ngöbe banana workers in Bocas del Toro, Panama and Talamanca, Costa Rica (visits).

1997-present Street-based substance abusers in Montreal and Vancouver, Canada (visits).

1996-present Oral history of a French forced laborer at the I.G. Farben plant at Auschwitz during the Holocaust (visit interviews).

1994-present HIV risk among homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.

1994-present Undocumented day laborers and former guerrilla fighters from El Salvador in the San Francisco Mission District.

1995-97 (Proto-)Gang members in the San Francisco Mission District.

1992 Street Children in Bolivia: La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz. (Summer/Spring).

1985-91 Puerto Rican crack dealers, East Harlem, New York: Full-time 1989-1991; summers 1986-1988; part-time 1985.

1985-86 African and North African immigrants in Paris (la Goûte d\'Or).

1982-83 United Brands banana plantation in Costa Rica and Panama (for doctorate).

1979-86 Miskitu communities of northern Nicaragua: 1979-1980 for the Center for Investigation and Studies of the Agrarian Reform and the National Literacy Campaign of Nicaragua; summers 1983-1985 and winter 1986 for the Centro de Investigaciones y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica.

1979 Mopan and Kekchi Maya communities of southern Belize (for Masters).

Publications

The Power of Violence in War and peace: Post-Cold War Lessons from El Salvador. Ethnography. 2001;1:2:5-34.
Disciplining Addictions: The Bio-politics of Methadone and Heroin in the United States. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 2000; 24:2: 165-195.
Needle Exchange, HIV Infection and the Politics of Science: Confronting Canada\'s Cocaine Injection Epidemic with Participant Observation Data. Medical Anthropology. 2000;18:325-350. (with Julie Bruneau)
Just Another Night in a Shooting Gallery. Theory, Culture and Society 1998;15:2:37-66.
The Moral Economies of Homeless Heroin Addicts: Confronting Ethnography and HIV Risk and Everyday Violence in San Francisco Shooting Encampments. Substance Use and Misuse 1998;33:11:2323-2351.
Social Misery and the Sanctions of Substance Abuse: Confronting HIV Risk Among Homeless Heroin Addicts in San Francisco. Social Problems. 1997;44:2:155-173. (co-authored)
Resistance et Autodestruction dans l\'Apartheid Americain. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales. 1997;120:60-68.
Confronting Anthropology, Education, and Inner-City Apartheid. American Anthropologist 1996;98:2:249-258.