Ariel Wilkis, Le pouvoir moral de l’argent. Classes populaires et économie du quotidien

 

Ariel Wilkis

Le pouvoir moral de l’argent

Classes populaires et économie du quotidien 

préface de Viviana A. Zelizer

EHESS

En temps & lieux

2020

 

Présentation de l'éditeur

À travers des scènes de vie à Villa Olimpia, une villa miseria située dans la banlieue de Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis explique comment la dimension morale de l’argent offre une perspective unique sur les relations de pouvoir dans le monde des pauvres. À l’intérieur des foyers, à l’occasion des rassemblements politiques ou au cœur des rapports entre hommes et femmes comme entre différentes générations, l’argent s’est imposé comme un opérateur social doté de l’étonnante capacité de maintenir, d’altérer ou de renverser les hiérarchies morales placées au fondement des rapports de pouvoir.

En faisant dialoguer la sociologie du pouvoir de Pierre Bourdieu avec la sociologie de l’argent de Viviana Zelizer, cette approche permet au lecteur de mieux saisir les liens entre argent, morale et pouvoir. À la fois ethnographie de l’économie et de la politique dans un milieu défavorisé et essai sur les multiples significations de l’argent, cette traduction inédite développe le concept de « capital moral» pour montrer que les transactions monétaires sont façonnées par les croyances morales de ceux qui en profitent.  

Traduit de l’espagnol par Francesco Callegaro 

 

 

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations. Edited by Johan Heilbron, Gustavo Sorá and Thibaud Boncourt

 

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

Edited by Johan Heilbron, Gustavo Sorá and Thibaud Boncourt 

Palgrave Macmillan

Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences  

2018 

Présentation de l'éditeur

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

Johan Heilbron is Director of Research at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS), France, and affiliated with the Erasmus Center for Economic Sociology (ECES), the Netherlands. 

Gustavo Sorá is Professor of Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, and a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina.

Thibaud Boncourt is Associate Professor of Political Science at University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a researcher at the Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique (CESSP-CNRS), France.

Table of contents 

• Introduction: The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

  Heilbron, Johan (et al.)

  Pages 1-25
  Preview
• The Globalization of European Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1980–2014): A Bibliometric Study

  Heilbron, Johan (et al.)

  Pages 29-58
• What Factors Determine the International Circulation of Scholarly Books? The Example of Translations Between English and French in the Era of Globalization

  Sapiro, Gisèle

  Pages 59-93
• What “Internationalization” Means in the Social Sciences. A Comparison of the International Political Science and Sociology Associations

  Boncourt, Thibaud

  Pages 95-123
• Unity and Fragmentation in the Social Sciences in Latin America

  Sorá, Gustavo (et al.)

  Pages 127-152

• The European Research Area in the Social and Human Sciences: Between National Closure and American Hegemony

  Heilbron, Johan (et al.)

  Pages 153-181
• The Post-colonial Internationality of Algerian Academics

  Leperlier, Tristan

  Pages 185-214
• The Internationalization of Sociology in Argentina 1985–2015: Geographies and Trends

  Blanco, Alejandro (et al.)

  Pages 215-241
• The Ford Foundation and the Institutionalization of Political Science in Brazil

  Canêdo, Leticia

  Pages 243-266
• Translating Western Social and Human Sciences in Argentina: A Comparative Study of Translations from French, English, German, Italian and Portuguese

  Sorá, Gustavo (et al.)

  Pages 267-293
• A Case of State Controlled Westernization. Foreign Impacts in the Hungarian Social Sciences (1945–2015)

  Karady, Victor (et al.)

  Pages 297-332
• Western References in Asian Social Sciences (Japan and South Korea)

  Brisson, Thomas (et al.)

  Pages 333-364

Ariel Wilkis, The Moral Power of Money. Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor

Ariel Wilkis

The Moral Power of Money 

Morality and Economy in the Life of the Poor 

Stanford University Press

2017

Présentation de l'éditeur

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people.
Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.

About the author

Ariel Wilkis is a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) and Co-Director of the Center for Social Studies of Economics at the National University of San Martín, Argentina.