Geschlecht – Herrschaft – Visualität
In the organizer's words:
Pierre Bourdieu's sociological view
The exhibition shows thematically selected photographs from the estate of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, which, according to him, visualized his most important theoretical concepts. Bourdieu is one of the most influential voices in international sociology of the 20th century. His major works, such as The Subtle Differences (1979) and The Misery of the World (1997), are widely read. However, Bourdieu's early ethnographic research in Algeria between 1957 and 1961, which took place during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962) under French colonial rule, is less well known. Here, his camera and the view through the viewfinder accompanied him at every turn in his diverse empirical studies.
In hundreds of photographs, he captured the traces of a traditional way of life destroyed by colonial violence and the consequences of the uprooting caused by the brutal forced resettlement of large sections of the population. Bourdieu's sociological gaze was particularly focused on how gender-specific everyday practices and role models manifest themselves in different social contexts - for example at work or in social activities in private and public spaces. These early observations of physical and social behavior later became an important source of inspiration for his habitus theory and the study The Male Dominion. The exhibition therefore works with a systematic combination of image and text to make this connection clearly visible.
On November 19 and 20, the first Bourdieu Lectures of Bielefeld University will take place in the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. They are an annual series of symposia organized and hosted in close cooperation with Bielefeld University, Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), the University of Education Freiburg and the Fondation Pierre Bourdieu.
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