Algerian Sketches by Pierre Bourdieu - 9780745646947

Algerian SketchesAuthor(s): Pierre Bourdieu\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9780745646947, 978-0745646947\nSynopsis\nIn 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. \n 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 .