Emmanuel Taïeb

Emmanuel Taïeb is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France and Professor of Political Science at SciencesPo Lyon.

He works on violence and its visibility, especially on death penalty, in a historical and contemporary perspective. He also works on the concepts of “biopower” and “thanatopower” and policies of the body in general. His other field of research deals with the various forms of news in the public sphere such as propaganda, conspiracy theories and rumors.
Lately, he worked on political TV series. He keeps a blog of critics and reviews, and he presented a radio program on social sciences, « La Valeur de l’Homme » (“The Value of Man”) on RCF.

He has published La Guillotine au secret. Les exécutions publiques en France, 1870-1939 (Hiding the Guillotine. Public Executions in France, 1870-1939), Paris, Belin, coll. « Socio-histoires », 2011, 317 p. (forthcoming in English at Palgrave Macmillan)

Last publications : « House of Cards : How Far Fiction Can Depict Political Moves? », Quaderni, 88, 2015 ; and « The civilisation of capital punishment in France », in Tatiana Savoia Landini, François Dépelteau (eds.), Norbert Elias and Empirical Research, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.