Double absence: Sayad–Bourdieu – case study współpracy naukowej
Double absence: Sayad–Bourdieu – a case study in academic collaboration

Summary/Abstract: The text discusses successive stages in the academic careers of Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad, approached and analysed in terms of careers coupling, as well as of Abdelmalek Sayad’s category of double absence. Referring to the biographies of both sociologists, the author argues that it was Pierre Bourdieu who was the principal beneficiary of his collaboration with Abdelmalek Sayad; this is also to say – beneficiary of the exclusive mechanism of double absence to which, according to Sayad, immigrants are doomed to be subjected. The text demonstrates that Sayad’s academic career was determined by non-meritocratic factors: ethnicity, past colonial dependencies and national affiliation, and ventures to answer the question about Pierre Bourdieu’s complicity in reinforcing these determinants.

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