Zum Hauptinhalt springen
Dekorationsartikel gehören nicht zum Leistungsumfang.
Uprooting
The Crisis of Traditional Algriculture in Algeria
Taschenbuch von Abdelmayek Sayad (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

32,60 €*

inkl. MwSt.

Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL

Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen

Kategorien:
Beschreibung
Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants - a quarter of the population - were forcibly resettled. They were removed from their homes and villages and relocated in camps controlled by the French military in what was one of the largest and most brutal displacements of a rural population in history.

It was in this context of colonial violence that Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad set out to examine transformations in the fundamental structures of peasant economy and thought. By destroying the spatial and temporal frameworks of ordinary existence and reorganizing the life of peasants, the process of uprooting completed what the imperial policy of land confiscation and the spread of monetary exchange had started: the 'depeasantization' of agrarian communities stripped of the social and cultural means to make sense of the present and orient themselves to the future. This destruction of the traditional way of life was exacerbated by the quasi-urban conditions of the resettlement shantytowns, which brought about irreversible transformations in economic attitudes at the same time as they accelerated the contagion of needs, plunging the uprooted individuals into a 'traditionalism of despair' suited to daily survival in conditions of extreme uncertainty. Through their detailed analysis of these processes Bourdieu and Sayad provide a powerful account both of the destruction of a traditional way of life and of the brutal effects of colonial power.

This classic text, now published in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, politics, migration studies, postcolonial studies and the social sciences and humanities generally, and to anyone concerned with the impact of colonization and its aftermath.
Between 1954 and 1960, in the midst of the Algerian War, more than two million Algerian peasants - a quarter of the population - were forcibly resettled. They were removed from their homes and villages and relocated in camps controlled by the French military in what was one of the largest and most brutal displacements of a rural population in history.

It was in this context of colonial violence that Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad set out to examine transformations in the fundamental structures of peasant economy and thought. By destroying the spatial and temporal frameworks of ordinary existence and reorganizing the life of peasants, the process of uprooting completed what the imperial policy of land confiscation and the spread of monetary exchange had started: the 'depeasantization' of agrarian communities stripped of the social and cultural means to make sense of the present and orient themselves to the future. This destruction of the traditional way of life was exacerbated by the quasi-urban conditions of the resettlement shantytowns, which brought about irreversible transformations in economic attitudes at the same time as they accelerated the contagion of needs, plunging the uprooted individuals into a 'traditionalism of despair' suited to daily survival in conditions of extreme uncertainty. Through their detailed analysis of these processes Bourdieu and Sayad provide a powerful account both of the destruction of a traditional way of life and of the brutal effects of colonial power.

This classic text, now published in English for the first time, will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, politics, migration studies, postcolonial studies and the social sciences and humanities generally, and to anyone concerned with the impact of colonization and its aftermath.
Über den Autor
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

Abdelmalek Sayad (1933-1998) was an Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at the CNRS and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Maps, Diagrams and Tables vii

Note on Transcription and Transliteration ix

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword Loïc Wacquant xii

Introduction 1

1 Forced Resettlement and the Logic of Colonialism 4

Forced resettlement and property laws 4

Landless peasants 5

Traditionalism of despair 7

Disdain and confusion 10

2 Two Histories, Two Societies 15

Acculturation and deculturation 15

Two exemplary societies: the Collo Massif and the Chélif Valley 16

Cultural transactions and colonial interventionism 18

Types of authority and types of intervention 19

The contradictions of colonial ideology and the contradiction of colonialism 21

Specifics of the study 23

3 Forced Resettlement and the Crisis of Traditional Agriculture 28

Dangers, control, and harassment 28

Kerkera: objective obstacles 30

Aïn-Aghbel: effect exceeds cause 32

Djebabra: partial and elective abandonment 35

4 The Discovery of Work 38

Employment and the awareness of unemployment 38

Experience of wages and attitudes to work 43

The prestige of a "trade" (metier) 46

A widespread attitude 48

Economic attitudes and family traditions 49

Time convertible into money 52

Discovering the scarcity of work 55

5 Tafallahu or the Consummate Peasant 58

Portrait of the "naif' 58

From naivety to folly 61

"Peasants of the end of time" 66

6 Farming Without Farmers 70

Refusal to admit 70

Unavowed disavowal 73

The alibi and the admission 75

The separation 78

7 Town-Dwellers Without a Town 82

From clan to household 83

Confronting differences 85

The broken group 89

From familiarity to anonymity 92

The urban situation and peasant values 101

Space, time, and values 108

8 The Cultural Sabir 116

Coexistence of contraries 117

Djeha's nail 121

Two contradictory abstractions 123

The educator and the bureaucrat 126

Appendices

Appendix I Glossary and Place Names 129

Appendix II The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Collo Massif 141

Appendix III The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Chélif Valley 155

Appendix IV One Aspect of Depeasantization: The Discovery of Illness 170

Notes 176

Index 209

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 250 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745623542
ISBN-10: 0745623549
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sayad, Abdelmayek
Bourdieu, Pierre
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 228 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Abdelmayek Sayad (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,37 kg
Artikel-ID: 113982310
Über den Autor
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) was one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the twentieth century. He was Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.

Abdelmalek Sayad (1933-1998) was an Algerian Sociologist and Director of Research at the CNRS and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Maps, Diagrams and Tables vii

Note on Transcription and Transliteration ix

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword Loïc Wacquant xii

Introduction 1

1 Forced Resettlement and the Logic of Colonialism 4

Forced resettlement and property laws 4

Landless peasants 5

Traditionalism of despair 7

Disdain and confusion 10

2 Two Histories, Two Societies 15

Acculturation and deculturation 15

Two exemplary societies: the Collo Massif and the Chélif Valley 16

Cultural transactions and colonial interventionism 18

Types of authority and types of intervention 19

The contradictions of colonial ideology and the contradiction of colonialism 21

Specifics of the study 23

3 Forced Resettlement and the Crisis of Traditional Agriculture 28

Dangers, control, and harassment 28

Kerkera: objective obstacles 30

Aïn-Aghbel: effect exceeds cause 32

Djebabra: partial and elective abandonment 35

4 The Discovery of Work 38

Employment and the awareness of unemployment 38

Experience of wages and attitudes to work 43

The prestige of a "trade" (metier) 46

A widespread attitude 48

Economic attitudes and family traditions 49

Time convertible into money 52

Discovering the scarcity of work 55

5 Tafallahu or the Consummate Peasant 58

Portrait of the "naif' 58

From naivety to folly 61

"Peasants of the end of time" 66

6 Farming Without Farmers 70

Refusal to admit 70

Unavowed disavowal 73

The alibi and the admission 75

The separation 78

7 Town-Dwellers Without a Town 82

From clan to household 83

Confronting differences 85

The broken group 89

From familiarity to anonymity 92

The urban situation and peasant values 101

Space, time, and values 108

8 The Cultural Sabir 116

Coexistence of contraries 117

Djeha's nail 121

Two contradictory abstractions 123

The educator and the bureaucrat 126

Appendices

Appendix I Glossary and Place Names 129

Appendix II The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Collo Massif 141

Appendix III The Forced Resettlement Centers of the Chélif Valley 155

Appendix IV One Aspect of Depeasantization: The Discovery of Illness 170

Notes 176

Index 209

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 250 S.
ISBN-13: 9780745623542
ISBN-10: 0745623549
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sayad, Abdelmayek
Bourdieu, Pierre
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 228 x 153 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Abdelmayek Sayad (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,37 kg
Artikel-ID: 113982310
Warnhinweis