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description: Description franaise:  la fin des annes 1950 comme des dizaines de milliers de jeunes hommes de sa gnration Pierre Bourdieu tout juste reu  l'agration de philosophie se trouve plong dans la guerre d'Algrie. Pouss par une impulsion  plus civique que politique  comme il le dit lui-mme rien ne lui parat plus urgent que de comprendre la situation et  de fournir les lments d'un jugement d'une comprhension adquate non seulement aux Franais de l'poque mais aussi aux Algriens instruits qui pour des raisons historiques ignoraient souvent leur propre socit .Dans des conditions extrmement difficiles avec un petit groupe d'tudiants il lance une srie d'enqutes de terrain dans une Algrie quadrille par l'arme qui le conduisent notamment  dcouvrir la ralit effrayante des camps de regroupement et  analyser les mcanismes de destruction de la socit algrienne dont ils sont l'emblme.Pour atteindre les objectifs qu'il s'est assigns Bourdieu doit oprer une vritable reconversion intellectuelle acqurir une connaissance ethnographique de la socit algrienne apprendre  marche force l'analyse sociologique mais aussi inventer de nouveaux instruments thoriques et empiriques  permettant de rendre raison des rapports de domination propres au colonialisme et en mme temps de penser la crise que la situation de guerre produit et exprime  la fois.Cet ouvrage rassemble les premiers textes crits par Pierre Bourdieu en plein conflit ainsi que des crits et interviews ultrieurs dans lesquels il revient sur l'Algrie et le rle qu'elle a jou dans son travail.English description: In the late 1950s like tens of thousands of young men of his generation Pierre Bourdieu having recently passed the agrgation 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.
language: English
title: Algerian Sketches
publisher: Polity