The Pierre Bourdieu Foundation was established in Geneva, Switzerland, in 2005. Its purpose is to promote cross-disciplinary and cross-national debates in the various social and human sciences, both at the academic and political levels, in the spirit of its namesake, who pursued an interdisciplinary and international research network.
On the founding
The foundation is based on a concept that the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu co-developed a few months before his death in 2002. Its president is sociologist Franz Schultheis . He is currently a professor of sociology at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and a member of the Swiss National Research Council. He had worked with Bourdieu at the Centre de Sociologie Européenne in Paris since 1986. The other founding members also came from Pierre Bourdieu's circle and have researched and published alongside him.
Pierre Bourdieu with camera
(later discovery, not archived)
Purpose of the foundation
The foundation’s objectives include
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the most freely accessible dissemination of Bourdieu’s legacy,
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Management of the photographic archive ,
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supporting initiatives that transcend national educational traditions in social sciences,
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the promotion of interdisciplinarity within the social sciences,
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the organization of a critical network of scientists, artists and intellectuals.
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supporting the contributions of this network against the commercialization of scientific contributions,
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the coordination of various scientific and cultural projects,
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Publication of the series " Schriften " (Suhrkamp)
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Publication of the series “ Researching with Bourdieu ” (transcript)
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the organization of the conferences “ Bourdieu Lectures ” in cooperation with the University of Bielefeld , the Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen) and the University of Education Freiburg
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A_001c - Ain Aghbel (Collo)
Current and past research projects
