In this episode, Dr. Shai Dromi, a lecturer of Sociology at Harvard University and author of Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector (2020), joins us to read from Luc Boltanski’s co-authored article ‘The Sociology of Critical Capacity‘ (1999).
Shai introduces us to Boltanski and Thévenot’s analysis of “critical” moments, the process that follows, and the use of the six worlds of justification.
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Jim Conley — January 30, 2021
Shai Dromi's two podcasts are a good primer on Luc Boltanski's work. But it's too bad that Thévenot's role is downplayed (especially by the host), and the whole network of people doing French pragmatic sociology is not even mentioned. Dromi's 2010 article with Eve Illouz, “Recovering morality: pragmatic sociology and literary studies” (New Literary History 41, 2: 351-369) is a useful supplement.
Also in this podcast, when Shai Dromi refers to Boltanski's "On denunciation" he says that he studied "thousands" of letters to the editor of Le Monde. Actually it was 275 letters, and they were to what might be called the investigative journalism department of Le Monde. (Pardon my pedantry.)