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Algerian Sketches (Paperback)
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Algerian Sketches (Paperback)
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In the late 1950s, like tens of thousands of young men of his
generation, Pierre Bourdieu, having recently passed the agr gation
in philosophy, found himself immersed in the Algerian war.
Motivated by an impulse that, as he himself says, was civic rather
than political', nothing seemed more important to him than to
understand the Algerian situation and provide the elements that
would enable others to come to an informed judgement about it. In
extremely tough conditions and along with a small group of
students, Bourdieu undertook a series of studies across an Algeria
that was tightly patrolled by the army, leading him to discover the
shocking reality of the resettlement camps and to analyse the
mechanisms of destruction of Algerian society of which they were
emblematic. To achieve the objectives he had set himself, Bourdieu
had to carry out a genuine intellectual conversion, acquiring an
ethnographic understanding of Algerian society, learning
sociological analysis at a breakneck pace and inventing new
instruments - both theoretical and empirical - that would enable
him to understand the relations of domination specific to
colonialism. These new tools also enabled him to analyse the nature
of the crisis that the war had both produced and manifested. This
unique volume brings together the first texts written by Bourdieu
in the midst of the Algerian conflict, as well as later writings
and interviews in which he returns to the topic of Algeria and the
decisive role it played in the development of his work.
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