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Translation and the Politics of Circulating Ideas

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This chapter explores the politics of circulating ideas, as part of a broader reflection on the circulation/diffusion/transfer/transplantation of concepts and ideas in the EU. The chapter starts with a discussion of some main points of Pierre Bourdieu’s text on the international circulation of ideas in which he develops a framework for the analysis of the diffusion of culture. The author then proceeds to develop some further lines of inquiry for an alternative social science approach to these issues. He explores the mechanisms by which ideas and concepts are associated to one another, how they form semantic fields, how they come to form institutionalized and taken-for-granted horizons of action and how they are appropriated by and attributed to individuals and groups through definitional struggles.