Biography

Béatrice Hibou is a research director at the CNRS affiliated to the CERI/Sciences Po. A specialist in political economy and political sociology, Hibou works on the political significance of neoliberal reforms, on the recomposition of the state and on the exercise of power and domination from a theoretical perspective of comparative historical sociology inspired by Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau and especially Max Weber. Her fieldwork is mainly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb.

She has notably written La Force de l’obéissance. Économie politique de la répression en Tunisie (La Découverte, 2006 ; The Force of Obedience. Political Economy of Repression in Tunisia, Polity Press, 2011) ; Anatomie politique de la domination (La Découverte, 2011 ; Political Anatomy of Domination, Palgrave, 2017) and Tisser le temps politique au Maroc. Imaginaire de l’Etat à l’âge néolibéral (Karthala, 2020 with Mohamed Tozy ; Weaving Political Time in Morocco. The Imaginary of the State in the Neoliberal Age to be published by Hurst/OUP)