Gisèle Sapiro - Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities: The International Circulation of Paradigms and Theorists

This series is the first to focus on the historical development and current practices of the social and human sciences. Rather than simply privileging the internal analysis of ideas or external accounts of institutional structures, it publishes high quality studies that use the tools of the social sciences themselves to analyse the production, circulation and uses of knowledge in these disciplines. In doing so, it aims to establish Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences as a scholarly field in its own right, and to contribute to a more reflexive practice of these disciplines.

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Cover image Jrg Langhans, Les carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge de Rainer Maria Rilke, http://www.jorglanghans.com/

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The present volume is the outcome of the European project International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities: Socio-Historical Perspectives and Future Possibilities (Interco-SSH), which was conducted by an international team of social scientists between 2013 and 2017. Coordinated by Gisle Sapiro, the project received funding from the European Union under the 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7/Grant agreement no. 319974).

Thanks to Alihan Mestci and Mohamed Amine Brahimi for helping us to prepare the present volume.

Special thanks to the painter Jrg Langhans for permitting us to reproduce on the cover a part of his work Les carnets de Malte Laurids Brigge de Rainer Maria Rilke.

The international travel of ideas gives them their distinctive shape as well as impactand this very international examination of how ideas circulate both traces particular paths and cases and advances the project of understanding the international character of humanities and social science.

Craig Calhoun,Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University, USA

Theories travel, but who sends them on their way, in which vehicles, under what flags?Ideas on the Moveprovides richly inspiring answers to these compelling questions. Its detailed maps of the mobility of cultural studies and critical theory, structuralism and public economics, and its dense accounts of authorial itineraries, from Arendt and Bourdieu to Said and Spivak, exemplify some of the most creative recent work in intellectual sociology and the social history of ideas.

David Armitage,Professor of History at Harvard University, USA

Ideas on the Movedemonstrates how some of the most influential contemporary theories and authors have been exported, transformed and used. In particular, it shows how these processes can be explained by integrating in a coherent, heuristic and transdisciplinary way hypotheses and tools elaborated by different traditions such as field theory, center-periphery framework, network analysis, comparative approach and transnational perspective.

Anna Boschetti,Professor of French Literature, University of Venice, Italy