# Practical Sense

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- [Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales at 50 Years](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/actes-at-50-years-no-3/): (2025) Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 50 ans, pp. 258-259. Annick Prieur Cover of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales issue 258-259 This anniversary issue opens with a quote from Yvette Delsaut, reflecting on her use of an old class photo in which she herself appears. She notes that the sociologist occupies “the two poles of the analysis: as the observing analyst and as the examined object.” The quote is especially apt, as this commemorative issue is authored by individuals who have themselves contributed to Actes over its five-decade history. Invited to give a review of this […]
- [A Southern Perspective on Actes](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/a-southern-perspective-on-actes-no-3/): For Afrânio Garcia, in memoriam Gustavo Sorá Every time I write an academic paper, I try to do it in the style of Actes. It’s a form of writing that involves intellectual decisions – how to construct knowledge problems and offer explanations. This style has a material imprint. It’s visually recognizable in its intensive use of images, interview excerpts, tables, graphs, spatial diagrams, and so on. Most frequently, it employs framing devices (encadrés) that can take the form of sub- or hypertexts or links, and comments that allow for the integration of specific themes or interpretive connections. Actes reveals what […]
- [](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/how-actes-liberated-researchers-from-the-straitjacket-of-academic-journals-no-3/): How Actes Liberated Researchers From the Straitjacket of Academic Journals Yves Gingras I cannot really remember when I first discovered and consulted Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. I just know for sure that I discovered Bourdieu through his 1972 paper in L’Année sociologique titled “Le marché des biens symboliques” that we had to read in a PhD seminar when I was a student in 1979-1980. Browsing Actes must have followed suit. My first contact with Bourdieu himself was in 1983 when, still a PhD student, I sent him a brief paper I had published in the magazine La […]
- [Visualizing the Conceptual, Conceptualizing the Visual](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/visualizing-the-conceptual-conceptualizing-the-visual-no-3/): A Journal in the Service of Collective Sociological Practice Franz Schultheis, Charlotte Hüser & Lilli Kim Schreiber   A Blind Spot in Transnational Reception To this day, the modern social sciences remain constrained by the boundaries of their national affiliation and the historical structures of their respective emergences, although they incessantly emphasize the universal validity of their theoretical and methodological perspectives. As Pierre Bourdieu repeatedly pointed out, they are contemporary without really being so. It often takes decades for works or institutions that are of crucial importance to some to be noticed by others. Texts circulate constantly in the context […]
- [A Sociological Workshop in Action](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/a-sociological-workshop-in-action-no-3/): This text was first published in: Kritzman, L. D. (ed.) (2000) The Columbia History of Twentieth-Century French Thought. New York: Columbia University Press. Loïc Wacquant Launched in 1975 with the blessing and support of Fernand Braudel, the director of the Maison des sciences de l’homme where it remained based for some twenty years, the journal Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (hereafter ARSS) has established itself as one of the world’s premier social science publications, yet one that remains highly singular for its format, tone, and mission. It has fueled the development of a distinctive sociological perspective, inspired by […]
- [Presentation of the First Issue of Actes ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/presentation-of-the-first-issue-of-actes-no-3/): This text was first published in: (1975) “Présentation”, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 1, pp. 2-3. Here you will find, side by side, texts that differ greatly in style and function: “finished” texts, of course, as they are called in academic journals, but also brief notes, reports of oral presentations, working texts such as drafts and interim research reports – where the theoretical intentions, empirical verification procedures, and data on which the analysis is based are more clearly visible. The desire to provide access to the workshop itself, which knows no rules other than those of method, and […]
- [Authors' Affiliations](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/authors-affiliations-no-3/): Tangi Audinet is PhD Candidate at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France Anna Boschetti is Professor Emeritus at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy Raoul Galli is Doctor at Stockholms Universitet, Sweden Yves Gingras is Professor at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada Charlotte Hüser is PhD Candidate at Zeppelin Universität, Germany Mikael Palme is Associate Professor at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Flora Petrik is PhD Candidate at Universität Tübingen, Germany Annick Prieur is Professor at Aalborg Universitet, Denmark Lilli Kim Schreiber is Student Research Assistant at Zeppelin Universität, Germany Franz Schultheis is Senior Professor at Zeppelin Universität, Germany Gustavo […]
- [Rising Complexities in Education: Opportunities and Inequalities](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/bsa-events-no-3/): British Sociological Association (BSA), Bourdieu Study Group Mid Term International Conference, Vienna, 3-5.9.2025 Flora Petrik More than fifty years ago, Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron revealed how educational practices and structures play a central role in reproducing social hierarchies. Their studies showed that while education is often celebrated as a means of emancipation and progress, it also serves as an accomplice in perpetuating inequality. Yet, to effectively challenge these mechanisms, the ways in which education sustains unequal relations must be continually re-examined, locally contextualised, and empirically explored.Co-organised by the BSA Bourdieu Study Group, the University of Vienna, University of Innsbruck, […]
- [A Podcast on Pierre Bourdieu’s Life and Work](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/podcast-on-pierre-bourdieu-no-3/): Bildningspodden Podcast, September 24, 2025 Raoul Galli and Mikael Palme On September 24, 2025, an hour-long episode entitled Pierre Bourdieu was published in the Swedish-language podcast Bildningspodden, connected to the Bildung magazine Anekdot produced at the Faculty of Humanities at Stockholm University and funded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.The main idea of the podcast episode being to introduce the academically interested public to Bourdieu, the invited guests were asked to imagine an average listener comparable to the folk high school teacher. The conversation covered a range of areas related to Bourdieu’s life […]
- [The Global Society of Ideas: Review and Prospects ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/event-audinet-no-3/): XI Congress of the French Sociological Association, University of Toulouse, 8-11.7.2025 Tangi Audinet “Texts circulate without their context:” anyone who has ventured into the international circulation of ideas knows this seminal formula by Bourdieu, itself borrowed from Marx, which functions as a theoretical mantra. But since the publication of that foundational text (Bourdieu, 2002), this field has made significant progress which could be seen at one recent scientific event. Last July, the congress of the French Sociological Association (AFS) allowed for a meeting between Gisèle Sapiro and Wiebke Keim, during thematic networks 27 and 36, to discuss their edited volumes […]
- [Representations of European Culture. From Goethe to Elias](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/review-boschetti-no3/): Charle, C. (2024) L’Europe des intellectuels. Figures et configurations, XIXe-XXe siècle. Paris: CNRS Editions. Anna Boschetti Christophe Charle has devoted many important comparative studies to the history of European cultures. By skillfully varying his scales of analysis, he has brought to light the relationships and “discrepancies of the times” characterizing this history.L’Europe des intellectuels aims to complement these overviews through an analysis focused on the role played by some intellectuals (in the broad sense) and their representations of European culture in the period spanning 1820-1940. These figures are Goethe, Berlioz and Liszt in the first part, Émile Zola in the […]
- [Recent Books’ List](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/recent-books-list-no-3/): Inspired by/ About Pierre Bourdieu’s Work Anheim, É., Pasquali, P. (2025) Bourdieu et Panofsky. Essai d’archéologie intellectuelle [Bourdieu and Panofsky. An Attempt at Intellectual Archaelogy]. Paris: Minuit Broca, S. (2025) Pris dans la toile. De l’utopie d’Internet au capitalisme numérique [Caught in the web. From the Utopia of the Internet to Digital Capitalism]. Paris: Seuil. De Montlibert, C. (2025) Parcours sociologiques. D’Émile Durkheim à Pierre Bourdieu. [Sociological Journeys. From Émile Durkheim to Pierre Bourdieu]. Paris: L’Harmattan. Diaz-Bone, R., Lehmann-Wermser, A. (2025) Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu. Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Duros, M. (2025) […]
- [Editorial](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/editorial-no-3/): The third issue of Practical Sense arrives on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales.Non-Francophone readers now have access, by way of translation, to a large number of Pierre Bourdieu’s books. This number varies, of course, depending on the language. At the same time, certain aspects of Bourdieu’s scholarly work remain invisible and inaccessible even to Francophone readers. This applies particularly to the important work he executed as the director of the journal Actes de la Recherche en Science Sociales.This journal is published in Paris, where it was founded in 1975 by Bourdieu […]
- [Issue 3](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-3/): You can download the whole issue here. Editorial (as PDF) Special Edition: Half a Century of Actes Presentation of the First Issue of Actes (as PDF) A Sociological Workshop in Action, by Loïc Wacquant (as PDF) Visualizing the Conceptual, Conceptualizing the Visual, by Franz Schultheis, Charlotte Hüser & Lilli Kim Schreiber (as PDF) How Actes Liberated Researchers From the Straitjacket of Academic Journals, by Yves Gingras (as PDF) A Southern Perspective on Actes, by Gustavo Sorá (as PDF) Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales at 50 Years, by Annick Prieur (as PDF) Recent Books Representations of European Culture. From Goethe to […]
- [Team](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/team/): The Pierre Bourdieu Foundation, managed by Jérôme Bourdieu and Franz Schultheis, is the host institution for the newsletter. The latter is organized around two different committees. A scientific one, which sets the newsletter’s broad guidelines, and an editorial one, which ensures its practical implementation. Fernanda Beigel Director of Research at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Professor at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina ​ Anna Boschetti Former Professor at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy Jérôme Bourdieu Director of Research at the Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement (INRAE), Director of Studies at Ecole des hautes […]
- [Comparative Perspectives on Transnational Fields of Cultural Production](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/comparative-perspectives-on-transnational-fields-of-cultural-production/): Workshop, CESSP, March 11, 2025 Vera Guseynova and Eunyoung Won While transnational approaches of different fields of cultural production have been developed with increasing frequency over the last two decades, no comparison of these fields has yet been made.  A recent workshop held at the Site Pouchet of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP) in Paris on March 11 brought together specialists from diverse research areas and geographical spaces to discuss how to operate transnational approaches by addressing the theoretical and methodological questions and challenges encountered in existing and ongoing empirical investigations. Organized in a manner […]
- [Hegemony and Fields.](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/hegemony-and-fields-working-with/): Working with the Concepts of Gramsci and Bourdieu Centre Émile Durkheim, Science Po Bordeaux, January 16-17, 2025 Matteo Puoti and Antoine Roger The underlying epistemological project of the conference was to deploy concepts from Gramsci and Bourdieu in their own logic, that is by employing and mobilizing them. Hegemony and field are analytical and heuristic concepts, therefore if they are considered statically as falling points or sites of anchorage, they lose their raison d’être. They can only be appreciated as devices for ongoing work and must be constantly put to the test, just as their operational quality and openness as […]
- [Pierre Bourdieu’s Posthumous Volume on International Phenomena](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/review-duval/): Bourdieu, P. (2023) Impérialismes. Circulation internationale des idées et luttes pour l’universel, Paris: Raisons d’agir. Julian Duval Impérialismes is a posthumous volume by Pierre Bourdieu published in 2023. It brings together texts and speeches on the international phenomena, most of which are unpublished or difficult to access. Introducing the book, Franck Poupeau and Gisèle Sapiro point out that Bourdieu was always concerned with international phenomena and conducted his first research in Algeria in a colonial context. In the 1960s, Bourdieu began running a research center with a Euro-pean scope that included comparative research. From 1965 onwards, as editor of series of […]
- [The Importance of Collective Work Strategies: The LTit Group ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/the-importance-of-collective-work-strategies-the-ltit-group/): Anna Boschetti The transnational research carried out by the LTit group (Literature Translated in Italy) clearly illustrates the importance of “collective work management strategies,” which Pierre Bourdieu saw as a necessary condition for autonomy (2005). LTit was founded between 2012 and 2013 by Michele Sisto, Anna Baldini, and Irène Fantappiè thanks to ministerial funding secured for their collective project on the role of translations in national literary history. Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework serves as a fundamental reference for Baldini and Sisto, who have participated in ESSE conferences and maintain scholarly exchanges with Gisèle Sapiro, Christophe Charle, and other researchers working […]
- [Some Remarks on the Conditions and](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/some-remarks-on-the-conditions-and-results-of-a-collective-international-comparative-research-enterprise/): Results of a Collective International Comparative Research Enterprise   Introduced by Johan Heilbron Among the early but rarely noted topics addressed in Pierre Bourdieu’s work is the tension between the crucial role of comparative research and the enormous difficulties of its practical realization. In The Craft of Sociology (or. 1968, tr. 1991), Bourdieu, Chamboredon, and Passeron state that the specificity of sociology as a science is that “it can only constitute its object by the comparative approach” (1991 [1968]).However, rather than simply compare particular social groups or specific institutions with each another, according to Bourdieu comparative analysis should concern itself […]
- [Transcultural Fields in Theory and Practice](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/transcultural-fields-in-theory-and-practice/): The Case of the Literary Field Gisèle Sapiro In the program Bourdieu outlines for a “sociology of the international circulation of cultural works,” he asks under what conditions it is heuristic to speak of “international fields,” which may only be grasped through the effects they produce, and particularly symbolic power relations (2023, pp. 83-100). He compares the high degree of the internationalization of mathematics with that of law, situating sociology between the two. Moreover, Bourdieu examines the relationship among national and international fields, and the degree and type of autonomy of the former in relation to the latter to distinguish […]
- [Can One Build a Transnational Space of Cinema? ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/can-one-build-a-transnational-space-of-cinema/): Julien Duval The work briefly presented in this text draws from a previous research project on cinema. One of its aims was to explore the possibility of analyzing cinema in terms of field studies. There is some debate as to whether the cinema sector, where the costs of producing and distributing works are particularly high, has the same structure as the literary field analyzed in Les Règles de l’art (Bourdieu, 1996). While some sociologists recognize the opposition between mainstream and independent cinema, or between arthouse films (cinéma d’auteur) and genre films (cinéma de genre), as a clear manifestation of the […]
- [Practical Sense and the Bourdieu Space Argentina](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/practical-sense-and-the-bourdieu-space-argentina/): Fernanda Beigel, Denis Baranger and Alicia Gutiérrez On November 11, 2024, the Practical Sense Newsletter was presented as a special event organized by the Research Center for the Circulation of Knowledge (CECIC) within the Workshop “Convergences between Bibliometrics and Prosopography: coverage studies, knowledge circulation, and academic asymmetries.” The webinar featured the participation of Johan Heilbron, Julien Larregue, Matthias Fringant, Carolina Pulici, Jéssica Ronconi, Alicia B. Gutiérrez, and Fernanda Beigel. This event also served as the opportunity to present the new Bourdieu Space: Argentina (EBA being its Spanish acronym), a recently created network to disseminate and engage in dialogue with Bourdieusian […]
- [Authors’ Affiliations](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/authors-affiliations-no-2/): Denis Baranger is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina Fernanda Beigel is Director of Research at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Professor of Sociology at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina Anna Boschetti is former Professor at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy Larissa Buchholz is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northwestern University, United States of America Julien Duval is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Vera Guseynova is PhD Student in Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France and Centre Français de Recherche […]
- [Editorial](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/editorial-no-2/): The thematic part of the second issue of Practical Sense unites articles on transnational fields of cultural production. As the recently published volume Impérialismes (2023, various translations forthcoming) makes clear, Bourdieu and his collaborators worked on a broadly conceived research program on “internationalization” and “globalization” since the late 1980s and 1990s. Some of this work, like Bourdieu’s article on “The International Circulation of Ideas” (original 1989), has been frequently translated and is relatively well known. Other parts of the research program, however, have not circulated widely, were never published in the first place, or have otherwise remained largely invisible.  The […]
- [Current Issue: No. 2](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-2/): You can download the whole issue here. Editorial (as PDF) Special Edition: Transnational Fields of Cultural Production Some Remarks on the Conditions and Results of a Collective International Comparative Research Enterprise, by Pierre Bourdieu (as PDF) Can One Build a Transnational Space of Cinema ?, by Julien Duval (as PDF) Transcultural Fields in Theory and Practice: The Case of the Literary Field, by Gisèle Sapiro (as PDF) From the National to the Global Rules of Art: Contributions and Questions for Globalizing Field Theory, by Larissa Buchholz (as PDF) What is Transnationalism in the Human and Social Sciences?, by Johan Heilbron (as […]
- [The Inequality of North-South Cultural Exchanges ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/the-inequality-of-north-south-cultural-exchanges/): A Joint Interview with Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni and Ian Merkel Carolina Pulici and Jéssica Ronconi Two recent books based on international archives draw on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture to deconstruct the mythical figure of the “uncreated creator” in order to reintroduce the social conditions related to the production and circulation of ideas and paintings. In Mulheres Modernistas. Estratégias de Consagração na Arte Brasileira [Modernist Women: Strategies of Consecration in Brazilian Art] published in Brazil in 2022, the Brazilian sociologist Ana Paula Cavalcanti Simioni examines the social and artistic trajectories of Regina Gomide Graz, Anita Malfatti and Tarsila do […]
- [What is Transnationalism in the Human and Social Sciences? ](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/what-is-transnationalism-in-the-human-and-social-sciences/): Propositions for Comparative Inquiry Johan Heilbron What are the main empirical and theoretical insights that, for the purpose of comparison, can be drawn from studies on the transnationalization of the social and human sciences (SHS)? [1] The SHS may appear to represent a rather different social space from the cinematographic, literary and artistic fields that form the objects of the other articles in this issue. However, there is good reason to include them in the comparative understanding of cultural and intellectual fields. The SHS do not merely constitute a relatively autonomous social space to which field analysis can be applied. […]
- [From the National to the Global Rules of Art](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/from-the-national-to-the-global-rules-of-art/): Contributions and Questions for Globalizing Field Theory Larissa Buchholz Globalizing Bourdieu’s field theory has been a collective endeavor for over two decades, propelled by foundational interventions such as Pascale Casanova’s World Republic of Letters (2004) and Johan Heilbron’s study of global translation flows (1999). Yet despite the proliferation of studies across domains – culture, academia, politics, religion, and beyond – a coherent theoretical framework for theorizing global/transnational fields has yet to emerge. Amid this fragmented landscape, the contemporary visual arts offer a particularly suggestive case. As a medium that is seemingly less constrained by linguistic translation, pedagogical nationalism, or the requirements of live performance […]
- [Recent books’ list](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/recent-books-list-no-2/): Inspired by/About Pierre Bourdieu’s Work 2024 Boschetti, A. (2024) Benedetto Croce. Dominio simbolico et storia intellettuale [Benedetto Croce. Symbolic Domination and Intellectual History]. Quodlibet: Roma. Charle, C. (2024) L’Europe des intellectuels. Figures et configurations, XIXe-XXe siècles. [The Europe of Intellectuals. Figures and Configurations, 19th-20th centuries]. Paris: CNRS Editions. Collard, V. (2024) Pierre Bourdieu. Genèse d’un sociologue. [Pierre Bourdieu. Genesis of a Sociologist]. Paris: CNRS Editions. Dubois, V. (2024) Bringing Bourdieu’s Theory of Fields to Critical Policy Analysis. Camberley: Edward Elgar Publishing. Fourcade, M., Healy, K. (2024) The Ordinal Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Kastner, J. (2024) Klassifikation und Kampf. Zur […]
- [Authors' Affiliations](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/authors-affiliations-no-1/): Camille Abajo is PhD Candidate in Sociology at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Paola Boué is PhD Candidate in Sociology at The City University of New York, United States of America Adrien Delespierre is Associate Professor in Sociology at Université de Tours, France Matthias Fringant is Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Université Clermont Auvergne, France Christine Frisinghelli is the former Director of the international contemporary art institution Camera Austria, Austria Pascal Génot in Doctor in Communication Studies and Graphic Novelist, France Johan Heilbron is Director of Research Emeritus at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Guest Professor at […]
- [International Capital and the Reconfiguration of Educational Hierarchies](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/international-capital-and-the-reconfiguration-of-educational-hierarchies/): SEC, Uppsala University – CESSP, Paris 1, June 13-14, 2024   Camille Abajo, Adrien Delespierre and Vincent Hugoo What picture can we draw of the current state of internationalization in education? Once viewed as an inevitable consequence of globalization, the internationalization of educational institutions and study paths may now be challenged by factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic and rising geopolitical tensions. International capital has often been described as the privilege of the elite, but is that still the case? Has competition for international resources broadened, or are they still primarily available to dominant classes? Can we speak of a […]
- [Thinking With Bourdieu Today:](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/thinking-with-bourdieu-today-interdisciplinary-and-transnational-approaches/): Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches   NYU, April 25-27, 2024 Paola Boué and Ohad Zeltzer-Zubida The goal of this conference, hosted at NYU, was to extend Bourdieu’s research program by bridging the humanities and the social sciences, exploring new applications of his concepts and theory. More specifically, the aim was to propose ways of linking intellectual history and field theory by focusing not only on the relationships between fields but also considering a comparative and transnational approach.The first day, chaired by Camille Robcis, served as an introduction to the various upcoming panels. Drawing on the key concepts of Bourdieu’s theory, Gisèle […]
- [Workshop on the Sociology and History](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/workshop-on-the-sociology-and-history-of-the-social-and-human-sciences-shshs/): of the Social and Human Sciences (SHSHS)   International Doctoral Workshop at the University of Graz, November 16-17, 2023   Martin Strauss Socio-historical studies of the social and human sciences are increasingly becoming a distinct field of research. Today, we find specialized journals, editorial collections, thematic networks within national and international professional associations, collective research projects, etc. However, maintaining a dialogue between the different disciplines and national traditions involved remains a challenge. In this context, the international workshop “Workshop on the Sociology and History of the Social and Human Sciences (SHSHS)” held at the University of Graz on November 16-17, […]
- [The Translations of Pierre Bourdieu's Books on Algeria](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/the-translations-of-pierre-bourdieus-books-on-algeria/): Matthias Fringant and Jéssica Ronconi As the literature on the transnational circulation of ideas suggests (Bourdieu, 2002; Casanova, 1999; Sapiro, Leperlier, and Brahimi, 2018; Vauchez, 2013), a text’s ability to cross national boundaries and reach other intellectual fields depends on many factors. A key factor is its capacity to be translated, which in turn is conditioned by the nature of the text, the linguistic and cultural power of its original language, and the history and position of its discipline within both the original and receiving fields, to name a few elements. This text examines the translations of Pierre Bourdieu’s books […]
- [Algerian Inquiries and Colonial Sociology](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/algerian-inquiries-and-colonial-sociology/): A joint interview with Amín Pérez and George Steinmetz Johan Heibron Two recently published and thoroughly researched books shed new light on the significance of Pierre Bourdieu’s Algerian studies. In Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle (2024), Amín Pérez presents an in-depth account of the collaboration between Bourdieu and Sayad. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and other archival material, he vividly details their collaborative efforts, showing how their unlikely encounter produced a new way of practicing sociology. The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Theory. French Sociology and the Overseas Empire (2023) by George Steinmetz offers a broadly […]
- [The Pierre Bourdieu Photographic Archive](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/issue-1_the-pierre-bourdieu-photographic-archive/): A Joint Interview with Christine Frisinghelli and Franz Schultheis Matthias Fringant and Jéssica Ronconi Pierre Bourdieu’s influence on the international social sciences is widely acknowledged. Less recognized, however, is his pioneering work in visual sociology, achieved through the systematic and intensive use of photography during his research in Algeria. For Bourdieu, photography was not only a methodological tool but also a crucial element of his sociological perspective. This approach is echoed in Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, the journal he founded, which places particular emphasis on iconography. These photographs, stored for decades in cardboard boxes, were occasionally used […]
- [Bourdieu For All Tastes](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/707-2/): Garcia Jr., A., Garcia-Parpet, M., Pérez, A., Poupeau, F. and Rocha, M. (eds.) (2023) Bourdieu et les Amériques. Une internationale scientifique : genèse, pratiques et programmes de recherche. Aubervilliers : Éditions de l’IHEAL.   Carolina Pulici   The study day held at the Institut des Hautes Études de l’Amérique Latine in 2019 resulted in a collective work that brings together seventeen varied contributions (research articles, testimonials, interviews) to explore the transatlantic circulation of Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas and his exchanges with researchers across the American continent. It aims to shed light on the social, intellectual, and political conditions that facilitated these […]
- [A Graphic Novel on Pierre Bourdieu's Algeria](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/2-html-a-graphic-novel-on-pierre-bourdieus-algeria/): Pascal Génot Bourdieu. Une enquête algérienne by Pascal Génot and Olivier Thomas (2023) is a graphic novel about Pierre Bourdieu’s Algeria. Pascal Génot, a screenwriter who holds a PhD in information and communication sciences, discusses the creation of this book. Bourdieu. Une enquête algérienne, Pascal Génot and Olivier Thomas. Steinkis, 2023. All rights reserved. It All Started with an ImageStarting in 2011, I had the opportunity to teach screenwriting at the International Comic Strip Festival in Algiers. Around the same time, after working on two fiction graphic novels (2005-2008; 2014) with Olivier Thomas, an illustrator, and Bruno Pradelle, a colorist […]
- [Recent Books’ List](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/recent-books-list-no-1/): Inspired by/About Pierre Bourdieu’s Work 2022 Buchholz, L. (2022) The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Da Mota Rocha, M. É. (2022) Bourdieu à brasileira [Brazilian Bourdieu]. Rio de Janeiro: Confraria do Vento. Gayon, V. (2022) Épistémocratie. Enquête sur le gouvernement international du capitalisme [Epistemocracy. Investigating the International Government of Capitalism]. Paris: Raisons d’Agir. Pérez, A. (2022) Combattre en sociologues. Pierre Bourdieu et Abdelmalek Sayad dans une guerre de libération (Algérie, 1958 – 1964). Marseille: Agone. Schultheis, F., Egger, S. (2022) Pierre Bourdieu und die Fotografie. Visuelle Formen Soziologisher […]
- [The Relevance of La Misère du monde 30 Years Later](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/9-2-html-the-relevance-of-la-misere-du-monde-30-years-later/): University of Pisa, April 17, 2024 Officina Bourdieu’s Seminar Group On April 17, to mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of La Misère du monde, the Italian Bourdieu Research Group organized a dedicated seminar at the University of Pisa. The event, held at the Department of Political Sciences, aimed to explore the relevance and significance of this seminal collective work edited by Pierre Bourdieu, from multiple perspectives. Three distinguished scholars were invited to participate.Rita Bichi from the Università di Milano – Cattolica discussed Bourdieu’s methodology, drawing a comparison between the article “L’illusion biographique” and the final chapter of La […]
- [Editorial](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/editorial-no-1/): On the occasion of the exhibition of Pierre Bourdieu’s Algerian photographs at the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris, from October 2024 to March 2025, the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation is launching an international newsletter published twice a year. The Foundation was created for coordinating international research projects and managing the collection of Bourdieu’s Algerian photographs. The principal aim of the newsletter is to inform a global readership about publications, conferences, workshops and discussions, which in a variety of ways build on Bourdieu’s sociology and put it to work in novel domains. The sheer impossibility of keeping up with activities in a […]
- [Some Comments Regarding Debates About](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/some-comments-regarding-debates-about-pierre-bourdieus-the-kabyle-house/): Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Kabyle House” Tassadit Yacine and Franck Poupeau The “Kabyle house” was the subject of an initial investigation conducted by Pierre Bourdieu in Kabylia starting in 1958, after his military service, marking the young philosopher’s entry into ethnology. The context in which this research was conducted is often misunderstood, leading to many misinterpretations. This research is based on materials collected during a pivotal period (1958-1964), first in a conflict situation, then at the end of the war, and finally during the early stages of independence. It draws on a wealth of ethnographic, sociological, historical, and statistical knowledge — […]
- [Issue 1](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/issue-no-1/): You can download the whole issue here. Editorial (as PDF) Special Edition: Algerian Inquiries Bourdieu. Une enquête algérienne: A Graphic Novel on Pierre Bourdieu’s Algeria, by Pascal Génot (as PDF) Algerian Inquiries and Colonial Sociology. A Joint Interview with Amín Pérez and George Steinmetz, by Johan Heilbron (as PDF) The Pierre Bourdieu Photographic Archive. A Joint Interview with Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli, by Matthias Fringant and Jéssica Ronconi (as PDF) Some Remarks Regarding Debates About Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Kabyle House”, by Franck Poupeau and Tassadit Yacine (as PDF) The Translations of Pierre Bourdieu’s Books on Algeria, by Matthias Fringant and […]
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- [About Us](https://practicalsense.net/index.php/aboutus/): On the occasion of the exhibition of Pierre Bourdieu’s Algerian photographs at the Centre Pompidou Museum in Paris, from October 2024 to March 2025, the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation is launching an international newsletter published twice a year. The Foundation was created for coordinating international research projects and managing the collection of Bourdieu’s Algerian photographs. The principal aim of the newsletter is to inform a global readership about publications, conferences, workshops and discussions, which in a variety of ways build on Bourdieu’s sociology and put it to work in novel domains. The sheer impossibility of keeping up with activities in a […]


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