Abstract
Edward Said is one of the most highly discussed contemporary intellectuals and academics. The chapter examines citations of his work in French-language journals between 1980 and 2014 and shows how the recurrence of Said citation varies according to the discipline of the journals. The citation types of Said’s work are the most diverse (positive, negative, or neutral) in literary journals. But his work is also very much discussed in general academic journals and in religious studies periodicals, where the citation is mostly positive. In contrast, there is less citing of his work in journals of political science and history, in which citation is more often negative.
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The MCA presented hereafter on the journals in which Said is cited factors in other variables, relating to certain social properties of the citing authors. Mobilized here in a qualitative perspective, these properties make it possible to perceive the intermixture of the social space and the academic publishing space in which Said is cited.
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Some of the journals changed their name several times during the period under examination. This is the case, for example, of Annales. Histoire, Sciences sociales, and Outre-mers. In this analysis, only the founding date of the journal under its first name was taken into account.
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Except for journals such as Social Science Information or Queens Quarterly, the journals indicated here as “general” are interdisciplinary but usually devoted to a specific research area or field. These include, for instance, Revue françaises d’études américaines, Archiv orientální, and Gaia.
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Fordant, C., Brahimi, M.A. (2020). The Reception of a “Traveling Theory”: Edward Said’s Citations in the French Academic Publishing Space. In: Sapiro, G., Santoro, M., Baert, P. (eds) Ideas on the Move in the Social Sciences and Humanities. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35024-6_13
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