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Uprooting (Hardcover)
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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.
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