{"product_id":"bourdieu-and-sayad-against-empire-forging-sociology-in-anticolonial-struggle-paperback-softback-9781509557868","title":"Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire; Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509557868","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBourdieu and Sayad Against Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eForging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAmín Pérez (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509557868, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e202 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 2.3 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-Winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2024 History of Sociology and Social Thought Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This book is a revelation. Pérez uniquely offers insights into the anticolonial thought of two major social theorists of our times: Pierre Bourdieu, and his collaborator and friend Abdelmalek Sayad. Anyone interested in social theory, anticolonialism, and postcolonialism will have to read and reread this innovative, illuminating, and clarifying work of committed scholarship.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulian Go, author of \u003ci\u003ePostcolonial Thought and Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Deeply researched and fluidly argued, Pérez’s book is essential reading for anyone wishing to grasp the anti-colonial roots of Bourdieu’s sociology and a stunning document on the entanglement of social science and empire.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLoïc Wacquant, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of the “Underclass”\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBourdieu in the City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A landmark study of the history of social science. Based on exhaustive archival research and original interviews with their contemporaries, Amín Pérez argues compellingly that Bourdieu and Sayad always attempted to articulate politics with social science, and that this did not contradict Bourdieu’s familiar arguments in favor of scientific autonomy.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Steinmetz, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Using a wealth of archival material, Pérez shows how Bourdieu and Sayad initiated research, while improvising and under the extremely difficult circumstances of a flaring colonial war.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohan Heilbron, \u003ci\u003eThe Dutch Review of\u003c\/i\u003e Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Amín Pérez’s \u003ci\u003eBourdieu and Sayad Against Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling historical reconstruction of the intellectual collaboration between Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). Drawing on previously unexplored archives and correspondence, this meticulously researched work illuminates how these sociologists transformed their experience of colonial violence into a revolutionary approach to sociology as emancipatory practice… This essential work illuminates Bourdieusian sociology’s origins and offers a model for responding to contemporary crises with scholarly rigor and political commitment. For scholars investigating domination, displacement and institutional exclusion, it provides both theoretical resources and ethical orientation, reminding us that powerful sociological concepts emerge from sustained engagement with the struggles of the dominated.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNetwork\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierre 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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 rigor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on extensive interviews and deep archival work, Amín Pérez rediscovers the anticolonial origins of the pathbreaking social thought of these brilliant thinkers. 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.​\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Sociology as Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChapter 1: The Origins of Subversive Knowledge\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Resisting in War-torn Algeria\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: A Sociology of the Colonial Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Liberation through Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChapter 4: Listening, Observing, and Testifying in Times of War\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Renewing the Social Sciences out of Political Necessity\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: From Colonial Liberation to Social Emancipation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470042034456,"sku":"9781509557868","price":17.87,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509557868.jpg?v=1785629566","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/bourdieu-and-sayad-against-empire-forging-sociology-in-anticolonial-struggle-paperback-softback-9781509557868","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}