The Sociologist and the Historian by Bourdieu Pierre; Chartier Roger; & Roger Chartier

Author:Bourdieu, Pierre; Chartier, Roger; & Roger Chartier
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 In Michel Deguy, Choses de la poésie et affaire culturelle (Paris: Hachette, 1986).

2 Bourdieu and de Saint Martin, ‘La sainte famille: L'épiscopat français dans le champ du pouvoir’.

3 W. N. Kellogg and L. A. Kellogg, The Ape and the Child [1933] (New York: Hafner, 1967).

4 Bourdieu is referring to the historian René Rémond (1918–2007), for many years the academic commentator on French television on election nights.

5 On 30 October 1980, the comedian Coluche announced that he would be a ‘candidate for candidacy’ in the presidential election due to be held the following May: ‘I call on the lazy, the dirty, drug addicts, alcoholics, queers, women, parasites, the young, the old, jailbirds, dykes, apprentices, Blacks, pedestrians, Arabs, French, the hairy, the mad, transvestites, former Communists, convinced abstentionists, all those whom politicians leave out of the count, to vote for me, put their name on the voters' list and spread the news: All together to kick them in the butt with Coluche. The only candidate with no reason to lie!’ Though polls gave Coluche between 10 and 16 per cent of voting intentions, he came under a number of different pressures. On 16 April 1981, he announced his withdrawal. Pierre Bourdieu commented on the episode in 1999 in the following terms: ‘When a simple citizen is told that he is politically irresponsible, he is accused of illegally practising politics. One of the virtues of these irresponsible people – of whom I am one – is that they bring to light a tacit presupposition of the political order, precisely that lay people are excluded from it. Coluche's candidacy was one of these irresponsible acts. […] The whole media-political field was mobilized, across all political differences, to condemn the downright barbarity of questioning the fundamental presupposition that only politicians are allowed to talk about politics.’ (Pierre Bourdieu, ‘Politics Belongs to Them’, in Bourdieu, Political Interventions, pp. 124–5.)

6 [‘Poujadism’ was a 1950s movement of shopkeepers and managers of small businesses against income tax and price control, led by Pierre Poujade, owner of a stationer's and bookstore in the Lot department. – Translator.]

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