INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Sur les tabous intellectuels: Bourdieu and academic dependence”
Autor/es:
BEIGEL, FERNANDA
Revista:
Sociologica
Editorial:
Società editrice il Mulino
Referencias:
Lugar: Bologna; Año: 2009 p. 1 - 26
ISSN:
1971-8853
Resumen:
In March, 1998, Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant published “Sur les ruses de la raison impérialiste.” Because of its engagement and style, this article could be catalogued as a manifest, honoring the genre by standing on the hinge between academic literature and political denunciation. It appeared for the first time in Actesde la Recherche en Sciences Sociales; it was translated immediately to Portuguese and German, and a year later to Spanish and English.1 While some scholars considered this article scarcely relevant, others recognized it as one of those texts that “make history.” Moreover, these latter stated that “Sur les ruses” had the effect of a “bomb” in the academic field. However, the data collected shows that its circulation was marginal in the US and it had minimum reception in Latin America. It was not included in the books that extended world widely the diffusion of Bourdieu’s critical work on Neo-liberal doxa and Americanism – namely Contre-feux. Mainly, it was discussed through the British Theory, Culture and Society. This paper intends to revisit the debate over the “Imperialism of the Universal” in order to decipher the conditions under which it was read in Latin America.