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"This book, based on the analysis of situations usually characterized as authoritarian or totalitarian, tackles one of the most classic questions of political science: the exercise of domination and the relations based on it. This issue sometimes seems hackneyed, and is to some extent considered outdated, but it remains fundamental in many ways. Still, was this sufficient reason for attacking such a monster head-on, without being restricted to a particular ‘field,’ and tackling it generically ? This task would have obliged me to read at least three quarters—perhaps all—of the books on political science, not to mention a significant proportion of the output of the other social sciences. If I had followed the dictates of scientific rationality and lucid foresight, I would never have ‘gone for it.’ But chance encounters, the vicissitudes of research, the vagaries of scientific life—intellectual adventure, in a word—impelled me to take this direction, somewhat in spite of myself. The music of domination had become ever more obvious to me: it seemed to be developing in rich and ambiguous ways that were sometimes traditional and sometimes surprising, seemingly repetitive but always singular.
Unlike my other works, the fruit of lengthy fieldwork and often solitary reflections arising from circumscribed readings and discussions, this book was truly born from my repeated confrontation with specialist colleagues from other ‘cultural areas.’ It was the debates that followed the publication of my book on the political economy of domination in Tunisia that gave me the idea of writing these pages. Indeed, the wealth of interactions and new lines of thought have come less from specialists in Tunisia, North Africa or the Arab world than from researchers—mainly political scientists but also historians, anthropologists and sociologists—working not only on Russia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), on fascism or Salazarism, on the former Eastern bloc, on China or subSaharan Africa, but also, more surprisingly, on France, Italy and contemporary democracies." (p.VII-VIII)
-Béatrice Hibou, The Political Anatomy of Domination, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (2011 pour la première édition française), 351 pages.
"This book, based on the analysis of situations usually characterized as authoritarian or totalitarian, tackles one of the most classic questions of political science: the exercise of domination and the relations based on it. This issue sometimes seems hackneyed, and is to some extent considered outdated, but it remains fundamental in many ways. Still, was this sufficient reason for attacking such a monster head-on, without being restricted to a particular ‘field,’ and tackling it generically ? This task would have obliged me to read at least three quarters—perhaps all—of the books on political science, not to mention a significant proportion of the output of the other social sciences. If I had followed the dictates of scientific rationality and lucid foresight, I would never have ‘gone for it.’ But chance encounters, the vicissitudes of research, the vagaries of scientific life—intellectual adventure, in a word—impelled me to take this direction, somewhat in spite of myself. The music of domination had become ever more obvious to me: it seemed to be developing in rich and ambiguous ways that were sometimes traditional and sometimes surprising, seemingly repetitive but always singular.
Unlike my other works, the fruit of lengthy fieldwork and often solitary reflections arising from circumscribed readings and discussions, this book was truly born from my repeated confrontation with specialist colleagues from other ‘cultural areas.’ It was the debates that followed the publication of my book on the political economy of domination in Tunisia that gave me the idea of writing these pages. Indeed, the wealth of interactions and new lines of thought have come less from specialists in Tunisia, North Africa or the Arab world than from researchers—mainly political scientists but also historians, anthropologists and sociologists—working not only on Russia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), on fascism or Salazarism, on the former Eastern bloc, on China or subSaharan Africa, but also, more surprisingly, on France, Italy and contemporary democracies." (p.VII-VIII)
-Béatrice Hibou, The Political Anatomy of Domination, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (2011 pour la première édition française), 351 pages.
