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In a poignant interview included in Picturing
Algeria, Pierre Bourdieu notes that “Yvette Delsaut wrote a text about me
in which she very rightly says that Algeria is what allowed me to accept myself.”
Indeed, in recent years, Bourdieu’s early fieldwork in Algeria has been
regarded as central to his conceptual apparatus. This edited volume features
Bourdieu’s photographs from 1957 to 1960, a period that witnessed some of the
most violent episodes of the Algerian war of independence. These images are
contextualized by excerpts from Bourdieu’s own writings, a foreword by Craig
Calhoun, and an interview with Bourdieu himself. The textual excerpts are
mostly taken from Le déracinement and Travail et travailleurs en
Algérie, two works that have never been translated into English. The
volume also includes two essays by the editors that
reflect on the relationship between Bourdieu’s later writings, his use of
photography, and his experiences in Algeria.
Louise Cainkar (LC): This article was developed from a keynote speech I delivered at the Conference on Arab World Migrations and Diasporas, organized by Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. When contemplating the keynote, I considered deeply what my particular contribution would be to a room full of multi-disciplinary scholars of Arab migrations and diasporas. I decided to focus on constructing a global context within which all of us—historians, sociologists, anthropologists, scholars of comparative literature, cultural studies, diasporas, and others—could situate our work. Such a context would allow us to converse across disciplines and theoretical frameworks, as well as begin speaking in comparative ways, which I consider useful and important. We know that there are variations and commonalities in the experiences of Arab world migrants and among Arab world diasporas; we should begin to talk about what matters and why it matters.
Tadween will be posting excerpts from the Arab Studies Journal's Twentieth Anniversary issue. What follows is the Editor's Note and Table of Contents from that issue