He is the author of Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa and Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties. His most recent research interests included publication of City of Light, City of Heat: Social Ecology and the Making of the Paris Heat Wave Catastrophe, about the deadly European heat wave of 2003, with a specific focus on the social dimensions of the catastrophe in Paris. Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler