Revisiting the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu« workshop - Edition 2026, study day #1: »Politiques des corps biologiques« (Politics of biological bodies)»
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Revisiting the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu« research workshop» coordinated by Philippe ALDRIN and Cyriac GOUSSET
The workshop brings together researchers who have been invited to look back at their own sociological approach, and to share and discuss their relationship with Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology, whether to think with it, extend the analyses they have sketched out or discuss unexplored dimensions.
Edition 2026 : BODY POLITICS & THE SOCIOLOGY OF RANKINGS
What role does the body play in ordering dispositions and classifying differences in the social world? As the medium of social representations, the object of specialised knowledge and the operator of practices, the body is a «socialised body» in many ways.
The «Body politics and the sociology of classifications» seminar brings together researchers who study socialisation through/of bodies, the work of making, legitimising or contesting the categorisations attached to bodies, and the relationships involved in the processes of incorporation, particularly within institutions responsible for education, care and selection.
The aim is to explore how the physicality of bodies - those of biological individuals as well as those of the institutions that care for them - materialise and perforate the social order.
For its second edition, the research workshop will take the form of 2 study days which will examine, from complementary angles, the recomposition of relationships between bodies, institutions and classificatory provisions:
- 6 March 2026 - Body politics
The social factory and the downgrading of bodily dispositions - 19 June 2026 - Body policies
Production of classifiers and the social force of rankings
Friday 6 March 2026 | 9am - 5.30pm | Sciences Po Aix, Espace Philippe Séguin, room 003 (Aix-en-Provence)
Discussion led by Philippe ALDRIN, Cyriac GOUSSET (UTOPI - UMR5311) and Magali NONJON
9am - 12.30pm - MARKING/CLASSIFYING BODIES: THE INCORPORATIONS OF SOCIALITY
- Solène BRUN, sociologist, CNRS IRIS research fellow: «Racial socialisation and the practical dimension of race: what Bourdieusian sociology can help us to think about».»
- Muriel DARMON, sociologist, director of research at the CNRS CESSP : «Investigating, over a period of 30 years, the incorporation of exteriority and the corporal exteriorisation of interiority».»
14h - 17h30 - SEIZING THE BODY: KNOWLEDGE OF INSTITUTIONS, INSTITUTION OF KNOWLEDGE
- Lucile RUAULT, sociologist and CNRS Cermes3 researcher: «The body belongs to them: revisiting the history of the abortion cause through the struggle for legitimate knowledge».»
- Romuald BODIN, sociologist, professor at the University of Nantes, CENS : «A relational approach to disability: from socially significant differences to institutions».»
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