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Beschreibung
Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian War of Independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire to understand the world in order to change it.
The work of both men was driven by the necessity of putting knowledge to use, whether by unveiling the relations of domination that structured life in Algeria or by opening emancipatory perspectives for the Algerian people. Colonies were of course a customary site of ethnographic work, but Bourdieu and Sayad refused to sacrifice scientific rigour to political expediency, even as Algeria descended deeper into war. Indeed, the act of understanding as a political commitment to the transformation of society lay at the heart of their project.
In this remarkable book, drawing on the public and private archives of these brilliant thinkers and interviews with their contemporaries, Amín Pérez rediscovers the anticolonial origins of their pathbreaking social thought. Bourdieu and Sayad, he argues, forged another way of doing politics, laying the foundations of a revolutionary pedagogy, not just for anticolonial liberation but for true social emancipation.
Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian War of Independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire to understand the world in order to change it.
The work of both men was driven by the necessity of putting knowledge to use, whether by unveiling the relations of domination that structured life in Algeria or by opening emancipatory perspectives for the Algerian people. Colonies were of course a customary site of ethnographic work, but Bourdieu and Sayad refused to sacrifice scientific rigour to political expediency, even as Algeria descended deeper into war. Indeed, the act of understanding as a political commitment to the transformation of society lay at the heart of their project.
In this remarkable book, drawing on the public and private archives of these brilliant thinkers and interviews with their contemporaries, Amín Pérez rediscovers the anticolonial origins of their pathbreaking social thought. Bourdieu and Sayad, he argues, forged another way of doing politics, laying the foundations of a revolutionary pedagogy, not just for anticolonial liberation but for true social emancipation.
Über den Autor
Amín Pérez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: Sociology as EmancipationChapter 1: The Origins of Subversive Knowledge
Chapter 2: Resisting in War-torn Algeria
Chapter 3: A Sociology of the Colonial Order

Part Two: Liberation through KnowledgeChapter 4: Listening, Observing, and Testifying in Times of War
Chapter 5: Renewing the Social Sciences out of Political Necessity
Chapter 6: From Colonial Liberation to Social Emancipation

Conclusion
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 202 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509557868
ISBN-10: 1509557865
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 1A509557860
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Pérez, Amín
Übersetzung: Brown, Andrew
Hersteller: Polity Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 228 x 153 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Amín Pérez
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.03.2024
Gewicht: 0,36 kg
Artikel-ID: 127135493