Pierre Bourdieu Foundation

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The Pierre Bourdieu Foundation was established in Geneva, Switzerland in 2005 . Its purpose is to promote interdisciplinary and international interdisciplinary and cross-national debates in the various social and human sciences, both on an academic and on a political level.

Establishing

The foundation is based on a concept that the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu worked on a few months before his death in 2002. The president is the sociologist Franz Schultheis . He is z. Z. Professor of Sociology at the University of St. Gallen and member of the “ National Research Council ” of Switzerland and had worked with Bourdieu at the Center de sociologie Européenne in Paris since 1986 . The other founding members also come from Pierre Bourdieu's environment and have researched and published together with him.

Foundation purpose

The goals of the foundation include

  • the most freely accessible transfer of the Bourdieu legacy
  • the support of initiatives that transcend national educational traditions of social sciences
  • support for the social sciences in countries where these are weak
  • the promotion of interdisciplinarity within the social sciences
  • the organization of a critical network of scientists, artists and intellectuals
  • the support of the contributions of this network against the marketing of scientific contributions
  • the coordination of various scientific and cultural projects, in particular the EU-funded social science network Pour un Espace des Sciences Sociales Européen (ESSE), which was founded in 2004 .

Formal structure of the foundation

The "Fondation Pierre Bourdieu" is recognized as a foundation under Swiss law . It consists of a foundation council (founding members, presidents, vice-presidents, members) and an executive committee (president, members). It is also in contact with a scientific advisory board, a permanent secretariat and an accounting trust company.

activities

  • One of the main activities up to now has been the management of Pierre Bourdieu's photographic archive with images from his research in Algeria . Bourdieu donated these images to the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation and Camera Austria . Oriented as far as possible to Sinn Bourdieu, who was able to accompany the project until autumn 2001, the touring exhibition Pierre Bourdieu was curated by Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli . In Algeria. Conceived witnesses of uprooting . It was first seen in 2003 at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and has been traveling ever since, always accompanied by symposia and conferences that discuss the legacy and relevance of Bourdieu's theory and methods (particularly photography). So far [2007] she could be seen in the USA, in Algeria and in many European countries. The illustrated publication accompanying the exhibition is available in German and French. In the extensive reception of the exhibition in specialist journals and the daily press it has become increasingly clear that Bourdieu's works are not primarily to be viewed in their aesthetic dimension, but as visual anthropology or ethnographic primary material and provide access to Bourdieu's oeuvre as a whole.
  • The foundation also wants to help spread Bourdieu's intellectual legacy by managing the photographic archive and publishing these testimonies.
  • The affiliated network “Pour un Espace des Sciences Sociales Européen” coordinates regular conferences and colloquia. So far, colloquia and workshops have been funded in Algeria, Turkey and Mexico.
  • The “summer schools” in Crete were also carried out by this scientific network. The summer schools are aimed primarily at European doctoral students and are intended in particular to network younger scientists. The conferences each last a week.

literature

  • Franz Schultheis : Pierre Bourdieu Foundation. For a European area of ​​social sciences ( PDF )
  • Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli (Ed.): Pierre Bourdieu. In Algeria. Evidence of uprooting. Edition Camera Austria, Graz 2003, ISBN 3-900508-47-X .

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