Připravujeme se na rozhovor s Thibauldem Moulaertem
Pokud se zajímáte o reflexi aktivního stárnutí, propojení mezi výzkumem a konkrétními lokálními politikami, neměli byste minout tohoto sociologa. Na začátku února s ním budeme vést rozhovor.
V roce 2017 vyjde sborník Framing Age: Contested knowledge in Science and Politics (2017, Routledge), kterého je spolueditorem. Rozcestník k jeho dalším pracím naleznete zde.
Během podzimu jsme měli příležitost se potkat s americkým sociologem Isaacem Reedem. Záznam z rozhovoru bude publikován v časopisu Sociální studia v roce 2017. Níže v krátkosti tohoto sociologa představujeme a připojujeme odpověď na jednu z mnoha otázek.
The Imagination Collectif interviewed Isaac Reed on October 13, 2016 during his visit in Brno, where he participated at the conference ‘Identities in Conflict, Conflict in Identities’.
Isaac Ariail Reed is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, and the author of ’Interpretation and Social Knowledge: On the use of theory in the human sciences’ (2011). Other papers referenced in this interview include ‘Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions’ (Sociological Theory, 2013), ‘Between structural breakdown and crisis action: Interpretation in the Whiskey Rebellion and the Salem Witch Trials’ (Critical Historical Studies, 2016), and ‘Deep culture in action: resignification, synecdoche, and metanarrative in the moral panic of the Salem Witch Trials’ (Theory and Society, 2015), as well as his book manuscript in progress, on power. Born in Durham (USA) in 1978, he currently resides in Charlottesville with his wife Jennifer and daughter Hannah. Dr. Reed’s grandparents were married in Prague in 1938.
IC: What would be your position in the debate on public engagement of sociologists?
IR: My book on interpretation would, I think, be a symptom, a part of a larger set of books that all agree that the opposition between doing science and doing politics is too dichotomous. And that there has to be a broader theoretical understanding of the positioning of the intellectual in society. The idea would be that there’s some way forward to resolve this issue so that everyone just stops yelling at each other all the time. But this is a big problem. Theoretically speaking, this is really a problem of post-Marxist left in the US. Some time ago, there was Marxist science and Marxist understanding of politics, and there was a series of ways to relate the two, starting probably with Lukács. And when philosophy of history goes away, you have a problem, because you have no longer a clear understanding of how scientific realism articulates with normative advocacy. So instead, you have a cacophony of voices and people trying to figure out how to move forward. I think Du Bois is going to be a different model for this. He’s an example, Du Bois spent 20 years editing a magazine called the Crisis, which is a public facing magazine on black issues in America. And so he was a scholar advocate who did this.
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