Amín Pérez
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle
Polity
2023
Présentation de l'éditeur
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.
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