Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire (eBook)

Amín Pérez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Part One: Sociology as Emancipation

Chapter 1: The Origins of Subversive Knowledge

Chapter 2: Resisting in War-torn Algeria

Chapter 3: A Sociology of the Colonial Order

Part Two: Liberation through Knowledge

Chapter 4: Listening, Observing, and Testifying in Times of War

Chapter 5: Renewing the Social Sciences out of Political Necessity

Chapter 6: From Colonial Liberation to Social Emancipation

Conclusion

"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."
Julian Go, author of Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

"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."
Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the "Underclass" and Bourdieu in the City

"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."
George Steinmetz, author of The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought