Le jeudi de sociologie historique 19/10/2023 – Patrick Joyce

Le Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones de l’Université de Varsovie, la Faculté de sociologie de l’Université de Varsovie et la Section de sociologie historique de l’Association polonaise de sociologie vous invitent à la rencontre dans le cadre du cycle

LES JEUDIS DE SOCIOLOGIE HISTORIQUE

le jeudi 17 octobre 2023, 17h00

WHY REMEMBER PEASANTS?

Patrick Joyce

Commentaire : Anna Sosnowska (OSA)

Michał Rauszer (WP UW)

La rencontre se tiendra en polonais.

Elle aura lieu en présentiel (à la bibliothèque du CCFEF, salle 3.012 au 55 rue Dobra) et à distance via Zoom – il est nécessaire de s’inscrire préalablement : m.rauszer@uw.edu.pl ou okf@uw.edu.pl.

Veuillez noter que la réunion est enregistrée. L’enregistrement sera utilisé à des fins scientifiques. La participation à la rencontre équivaut à donner son consentement.

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WHY REMEMBER PEASANTS?

Agriculture in Europe first appeared around 8,500 years ago in what is now modern-day Turkey, spreading west and north thereafter and appearing in Britain, Ireland and Northern Europe
approximately 6,000 years ago. At one time, not so long ago in he greater scheme of things, the vast majority of people on the globe were workers on the land, so that it can be said that almost
all of us are in one way or another the children of peasants. Now it is all ending, vanishing before our inattentive eyes. These thousands of years of history are coming to an end. This vanishing has since 1950 been worldwide, as the majority of the world’s population has come to live an urban life.

This change is perhaps the most fundamental one the contemporary world has seen, all the other vast changes notwithstanding. We do not easily remember peasants. The realities of their lives are a dim presence in the historical record. We catch only glimpses.

“What the skeleton is to anatomy, the peasant is to history, its essential hidden support.” In this new history of peasantry, social historian Patrick Joyce aims to tell the story of this lost world and its people, and how we can commemorate their way of life. In one sense, this is a global history, ambitious in scope, taking us from the urbanization of the early 19th century to the present day. But more specifically, Joyce’s focus is the demise of the European peasantry and of their rites, traditions, and beliefs.