THIREAU Isabelle
Adjunct Professor
Prof. Thireau is a Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research and a Professor of Sociology at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris). She taught at the Department of Sociology of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1993 to 1999. Her interests include the making of social norms; the social evaluations of justice, fairness and equity; the dynamics of intermediary publics. After having focused on Guangdong, Anhui and Beijing, her recent fieldwork concentrates on the city of Tianjin.
Current research and teaching interests
- Social Norms and Sense of Justice
- Intermediary Publics
- The History of French Sociology
Selected publications
| Isabelle Thireau, Des lieux en commun. Une ethnographie des rassemblements publics en Chine contemporaine [Spaces in common: An Ethnography of public gatherings in Contemporary China], Paris, Éditions de l’EHESS, 2021. |
| Isabelle Thireau, « Being Together at a Distance, Talking and Avoiding Talk », The China Quarterly, 246, 2021, pp 428-446. |
| Isabelle Thireau, “Contesting Illegitimate Situations, Reassessing Shared Norms in Contemporary China”, European Journal of Social Sciences, 2014, 52/2, pp. 133-160. |
| Isabelle Thireau, “One Law, Two Interpretations: Mobilizing the Labor Law in Arbitration Committees and in Letters and Visits Offices”, in Engaging the Law in China: State, Society and Possibilities for Justice, (edited by Neil J. Diamant, Stanley B. Lubman and Kevin J. O’Brien), Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2005, pp. 84-107. |