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Anthropologist and research director at the CNRS. He is the author of *Les Sentinelles des pandémies: Chasseurs de virus et observateurs d’oiseaux aux frontières de la Chine* (Éditions du Seuil, 2021) and *Politique des zoonoses: Vivre avec les animaux au temps des virus pandémiques* (La Découverte, 2024).
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Goffman, Durkheim and the Rites of Everyday Life
In Archives de philosophie (2012/3 Volume 75)
Biopower, capitalism, and animal surveillance: On Politique des zoonoses
In Sciences sociales et santé (2025/3 Vol. 43)
How Biosecurity Reframes Animal Surveillance
- By Nicolas Fortané,
- Frédéric Keck,
- Translation by Christopher Hinton
In Revue d'anthropologie... (2015/2 Vol. 9, No 2)
The point of view of animism
Concerning Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola
- By Frédéric Keck,
- Translation by Joe Larios
In Esprit (2006/8 August September)
From Biotechnologies to Biopower, from Bioethics to Biopolitics
In Multitudes (2003/2 No 12)
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Biopower, capitalism, and animal surveillance: On Politique des zoonoses
In Sciences sociales et santé (2025/3 Vol. 43)
Nuestros gemelos, los pájaros. Julien Bondaz, Poussière d’oiseaux, Une autre histoire de la mission Dakar-Djibouti, Éditions B42, “Culture”, 2025, 176 pages, 19 euros.
In Études (2025/10)
Catherine Rémy, Hybrides. Transplanter des organes de l’animal à l’humain
In L'Homme (2025/2 N° 254)
Emmanuel Terray in his Anthropological City (II): Reading and Activism between Germany and France
In L'Homme (2025/1)
Frédéric Laugrand & Antoine Laugrand, Des voies de l’ombre. Quand les chauves-souris sèment le trouble
In L'Homme (2024/3-4 n° 251-252)
Benoît Vaillot, L’Invention d’une frontière. Entre France et Allemagne, 1871-1914
In L'Homme (2024/3-4 n° 251-252)
Tanja Bogusz, Experimentalism and sociology. From crisis to experience
In Sociologie (2023/4 Vol. 14)
Epidemics at the edge of sight
In L'Homme (2023/2 No 246)
Agier (Michel), Vivre avec des épouvantails. Le monde, les corps, la peur.
Paris, Premier Parallèle, 2020, 160 p., €16.
In Revue française de sociologie (2022/3 Vol. 63)
Anne-Christine Trémon, Pour la cause de l’ancêtre. Relation diasporique et transformations d’un village globalisé (Shenzhen, Chine)
In L'Homme (2021/1 No 237)
Animals versus the State.
Ontological watershed and shifting politics in the social sciences
In L'Homme (2020/3 No 236)
Portraits of Christian Drosten and Didier Raoult as virus-hunters. An anthropological comparison of France and Germany
In Cités (2020/4 No 84)
Conferences and documents: Reports
- By Frédéric Keck
- and Arnaud Morvan
In Natures Sciences Sociétés (2019/2 Vol. 27)
Anthropology of the Imagination Tested by Terrorism
On Maurice Godelier, L’imaginé, l’imaginaire et le symbolique, Paris, Cnrs Éd., 2015.
In L'Homme (2017/1 No 221)
Vaccine criticism: An increase in generality or singularity?
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In Sciences sociales et santé (2017/4 Vol. 35)
Avian Flu
In Esprit (2016/2 February)
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How Biosecurity Reframes Animal Surveillance
- By Nicolas Fortané,
- Frédéric Keck,
- Translation by Christopher Hinton
In Revue d'anthropologie... (2015/2 Vol. 9, No 2)
Présentation
How biosecurity reframes animal surveillance
- By Nicolas Fortané
- and Frédéric Keck
In Revue d'anthropologie des connaissances (2015/2 Vol. 9, n° 2)
Epidemics Between “East” and “ West”
In Extrême-Orient Extrême-Occident (2014/1 No 37)
Sophie Houdart. L'universel à vue d'œil Paris, Éditions Petra, 2013,280 pages.
In Critique internationale (2014/1 No 62)
The WHO and its sentinels. From pandemic influenza to avian influenza
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In Sciences sociales et santé (2013/4 Vol. 31)
Couting Viruses, Observing Birds
Data Banks for Avian Flu
In Revue d'anthropologie... (2013/4 Vol. 7, No 4)
Vaccinated Like Animals?
Rumors about Influenza A/H1N1 Virus and Bluetongue Disease in France (2009)
In Genèses (2013/2 No 91)
Animal Health and Global Health: Avian Influenza in Asia
In Revue Tiers Monde (2013/3 No 215)
The Dissolution of the Subject and Ecological Catastrophe in Lévi-Strauss's Work
In Archives de philosophie (2013/3 Volume 76)
The Epistemology of Human Sciences in the Face of the “Animalist Turn”
In L'Homme (2013/1 No 205)
Goffman, Durkheim and the Rites of Everyday Life
In Archives de philosophie (2012/3 Volume 75)
Lévy-Bruhl, Jaurès, and War
In Cahiers Jaurès (2012/2 No 204)
The Negative Ecology of Claude Lévi-Strauss
In Esprit (2011/8 August September)
Space Invader Meets the King of Kowloon
In Esprit (2011/8 August September)
Experts and Political Decision-Making: Revisiting the French Government's Response to the Flu Pandemic: An Interview with Frédéric Keck
In Esprit (2011/3 March April)
Le Nom des gens: An Anthropology of Avian Flu
In Esprit (2011/2 February)
The Global and National Failure of the H1N1 Vaccination
In Esprit (2010/2 February)
Swine Flu: American or Asian Origins?
In Esprit (2009/10 October)
Transformations in the Flu
In Esprit (2009/6 June)
A Sinological Dispute and Its Implications
On Jean-François Billeter's Contre François Jullien
In Esprit (2009/2 February)
Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Centenary
In Esprit (2009/2 February)
Conflicts of Experts: Zoonosis, between Animal Health and Human Health
In Ethnologie française (2009/1 Vol. 39)
Theory, Concepts, and Politics before 1968
- By Frédéric Keck,
- Jean-Claude Monod,
- Georges Vigarello
- et al.
In Esprit (2008/5 May)
Food Risks and Food Health Catastrophes
The French Food Safety Agency: From Mad Cow Disease to Bird Flu
In Esprit (2008/3 March April)
The point of view of animism
Concerning Beyond Nature and Culture by Philippe Descola
- By Frédéric Keck,
- Translation by Joe Larios
In Esprit (2006/8 August September)
How Fetuses Have Become Visible
The Structuralist and Phenomenological Approaches of Biopolitical Contradictions
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2006/2 61st Year)
Mental Causality and Perception of the Invisible
The Concept of Participation According to Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
In Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger (2005/3 Volume 130)
Fiction, Insanity, Fetishism
Claude Levi-Strauss between Comte and Balzac
In L'Homme (2005/3 No 175-176)
From Biotechnologies to Biopower, from Bioethics to Biopolitics
In Multitudes (2003/2 No 12)
The Human Mind: From Parenthood to Myths, from Theory to Practice
In Archives de philosophie (2003/1 Volume 66)