Didier Bigo

Didier Bigo is emeritus research professor of International Political Sociology at Sciences-Po Paris-CERI, France and an Associate Researcher at CERI.

He holds the Global chair of social justice at University of Liverpool, where he is a Professor of Sociology and he directs the Centre d’Etudes sur les Conflits, la Liberté, la Sécurité (CECLS).

He is also one of the editors-in-chief at Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS)

His areas of interests are:

• International Political Sociology: transversal lines, reframing the study of International Relations
• Epistemology and modalities of observation of field of practices
• Sociogenesis of academic institutions and forms of knowledge
• Transdisciplinary Approaches to (in)security studies: topics
• Democratic boundaries and Data Politics
• Freedom, Mobility, Prevention and Surveillance in the Digital Age
• Sociology of Border controls, Biometrics identifiers and Databases interoperability
• Human Rights and Antiterrorist policies: exploring suspicion and exception
• Travelers, Migrants and Refugees: transversal biographies