Towards a social history of suffering: Dignity, misery and disrespect

Social History

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 343-358

  Reid, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0042807413     PISSN: 03071022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03071020210160359     Document Type: Review

References (29)

1. Libération, 11 February 1993.
2. Pierre Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations, trans. Richard Nice (Stanford, 1997), 57-8.
3. A number of the interviews in the original volume are not translated in The Weight of the World. For these, reference is made to Pierre Bourdieu et al., La Misère du monde (Paris, 1998).
4. This is the perception of the flexibility and conflict avoidance so valued by American professionals and managers in Lamont's earlier study, Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and American Upper-Middle Class (Chicago, 1992).
5. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, trans. Richard Nice (Cambridge, 1984).
6. Günter Grass sees in the interviews in The Weight of the World raw material for a novelist like himself: Le monde, 3 December 1999.
7. Frédérique Matoni, 'La déception' in Bourdieu, La Misère, op. cit., 875.
8. Le Monde, 3 December 1999.
9. Giovania Procacci, Gouverner la misère: la question sociale en France, 1789-1848 (Paris, 1997).
10. See Union nationale des étudiants de France, De la misère en milieu étudiant, considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuelle, et de quelques moyens de rémedier (Paris, 1966); Tahar ben Jelloun, La plus haute de solitudes: misère sexuelle d'émigrés nord-africains (Paris, 1977). More recently, Pascal Bruckner has denounced the 'misery' generated by obsession with the market, whether praised or damned, in globalization and anti-globalization movements (Misère de la prospérité (Paris, 2002)).
11. See Union nationale des étudiants de France, De la misère en milieu étudiant, considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuelle, et de quelques moyens de rémedier (Paris, 1966); Tahar ben Jelloun, La plus haute de solitudes: misère sexuelle d'émigrés nord-africains (Paris, 1977). More recently, Pascal Bruckner has denounced the 'misery' generated by obsession with the market, whether praised or damned, in globalization and anti-globalization movements (Misère de la prospérité (Paris, 2002)).
12. See Union nationale des étudiants de France, De la misère en milieu étudiant, considérée sous ses aspects économique, politique, psychologique, sexuel et notamment intellectuelle, et de quelques moyens de rémedier (Paris, 1966); Tahar ben Jelloun, La plus haute de solitudes: misère sexuelle d'émigrés nord-africains (Paris, 1977). More recently, Pascal Bruckner has denounced the 'misery' generated by obsession with the market, whether praised or damned, in globalization and anti-globalization movements (Misère de la prospérité (Paris, 2002)).
13. Le Monde, 6 March 2001.
14. However, The Wieght of the World project does not go as far as the Groupe de Recherche Quart Monde-Université which sees academics and those experiencing misery as each having a particular knowledge and the dialogue between these communities as producing new forms of knowledge - and of respect: Groupe de Recherche Quart Monde-Université, Le croisement des saviors. Quant le Quart Monde et l'Université pensent ensemble (Paris, 1999).
15. Bourdieu, Pascalian Mediations, op. cit., 60. On this issue, see Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (Chicago, 1992).
16. Bourdieu, Pascalian Mediations, op. cit., 60. On this issue, see Pierre Bourdieu and Loïc Wacquant, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (Chicago, 1992).
17. Bourdieu, Pascalian Meditations, op. cit., 239-40.
18. See Abdelmalek Sayad, La Double absence. Des illusions de l'émigré aux soufrances de l'immigré (Paris, 1999).
19. See Francine Muel-Dreyfus, 'La messagère' in Bourdieu, La Misère op. cit., 1301-22.
20. See Remi Lenoir, 'La police des pauvres' in Bourdieu, La Misère, op. cit., 431-9.
21. Libération, 11 February 1993.
22. Pierre Bourdieu, 'Vu d'en bas' in La Misère, op. cit., 665-84.
23. See Loïc Wacquant's extraordinary Corps et âme: carnets ethnographiques d'un apprenti boxeur (Paris, 2001).
24. See Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Cambridge, 1995).
25. See Loïc Wacquant, Les prisons de la misère (Paris, 1999) for a critique of the dissemination in western Europe of American penal policy - 'aimed at criminalizing misery'.
26. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto, ed. Frederic Bender (New York, 1988), 64.
27. Le Monde, 3 December 1999.
28. See, for instance, Jacques Rancière's use of these letters in The Nights of Labor: The Workers' Dream in Nineteenth-Century France, trans. John Drury (Philadelphia, 1989).
29. Lee Iacocca, Iacocca: An Autobiography (New York, 1984).