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Marcel Bolle de Bal (1)
persiste et signe.
Ouvrage fragmenté
à la clé...
Marcel Bolle de Bal
Chers amis,
Les règles
actuelles du monde de l'édition sont telles qu'il me revient (je ne suis
ni Morin, ni Hessel, ni DSK ...) de m'adresser à vous pour vous annoncer la
sortie de ma dernière «oeuvre»: Fragments pour une sociologie existentielle (2).
Alter-sociologie
Pour moi, il
s'agit de la réalisation d'un projet caressé de longues années durant, une
sorte de livre-testament synthétisant trois décennies de réflexions
sociologiques, l'ouverture du chantier d'une branche originale de la sociologie,
et de ses liens étroits avec la psychologie et la philosophie: la sociologie existentielle.
Psycho-philo-sociologie
Une sociologie
existentielle?
Pour quoi
faire?
Essentiellement
pour offrir une ouverture à une sociologie classique trop souvent confinée à
l’analyse des structures sociales et des mouvements sociaux.
Surtout pour
aborder sociologiquement les dimensions cruciales de l’existence humaine: la
naissance, la vie, les émotions, la croissance, l’amour, la mort… en étroite
collaboration, cela va de soi, avec les sciences voisines que sont la
psychologie et la philosophie.
Tel est né et
mis en chantier, voici plus d’un quart de siècle, un projet original au cœur de
la sociologie francophone.
Depuis lors,
maints textes ont été rédigés et publiés pour étayer les fondations de ce
projet.
Les voici ici
enfin rassemblés, fragments pour la mise sur orbite d’une discipline
prometteuse.
Puissent-ils
inciter quelques chercheurs des nouvelles générations à entreprendre la
rédaction d’un futur «traité» fondateur pour une nouvelle branche importante du
savoir en sciences humaines…
Triptyque
éditorial
De cette
discipline originale sont évoqués, dans cet ensemble de textes à la fois
autonomes et interdépendants,...
. les
fondements théoriques (tome 1),
. les thèmes
et enjeux essentiels (tome 2),
. les modes
d’intervention sur et dans la société (ce tome 3).
Cet
ouvrage comporte donc trois tomes:
1. Théories et
concepts.
2. Thèmes et
enjeux.
3. Pratiques
et engagements.
Soit trois
volumes qui peuvent être lus et achetés séparément.
On garde le
contact...
Au cas où vous
auriez le courage de tenter d'en découvrir la substantifique moelle,
toute réaction écrite ou orale de votre part ne pourra que réjouir un auteur
avide d'échanges sociologiques et existentiels.
Merci d'avance
pour votre éventuelle future «reliance».
Très
cordialement,
Marcel Bolle
de Bal
(1) Marcel
Bolle De Bal, professeur émérite de sociologie et de
psychosociologie à l’Université libre de Bruxelles, a été au sein de celle-ci
président du collège scientifique de l’Institut de sociologie et de la faculté des
sciences psychologiques et pédagogiques. Président d’honneur de l’Association
internationale des sociologues de langue française, il a également été
professeur visiteur aux universités de Genève, Paris-Dauphine,
Toulouse-le-Mirail et Fribourg (Suisse). Il a publié plus d’une trentaine
d’ouvrages de sociologie, de psychosociologie et de gestion des ressources
humaines. Promoteur d’une sociologie existentielle, il poursuit ses réflexions
actuelles autour de questions à la fois philosophiques, psychologiques et
sociologiques.
(2) Bolle de Bal Marcel, Fragments pour une sociologie existentielle (Tome 1:
Théories et concepts. Tome 2: Thèmes et enjeux. Tome 3: Pratiques et engagements), L'Harmattan, Paris,
2013.
Open letter to Mrs Angela Merkel in regard of the reduction of the European Plan of the most deprived Programme - problem of hunger - copy to the German press and others
RépondreSupprimerSehr geehrte Frau Merkel,
I am very sad to note the consequences of the last budgetary council of the European Union. I saw that the budget of the Plan of the most deprived Programme put in place to help to feed the poor has been considerably reduced by the European leaders, you included. With an initial proposal of 500 million EUR it was already not sufficient. With your colleagues you have decided to reduce this amount to 300 million EUR.
I cannot congratulate anybody for this position. And I need to look for responsibilities. I regret to note that the German authorities have had a very important role in this matter. They have supported an important reduction of this European budget. And that is now the new system: because the European budget gives less money to the most deprived programme, there will be less food for the poor!
The poor can suffer from hunger but the European leader does not suffer from this situation. The poor has the right to have an empty stomach but during this time the European leaders will eat exquisite food and good wines and other beverages. And that is the taxpayer who pays the good meals and drinks of their leaders. Personally I prefer that the taxes I pay go to feed to the poor because they need it. The European leaders do not need my money to be fed. They have a sufficient salary to afford the food they need. Isn't it discriminatory that my taxes serve to give food to the rich and not to the poor ? The next time that you enjoy food paid by the taxpayer, think to the poor that doesn't enjoy basic food !
Food is a very basic right. Your country has ratified a treaty in regard to the right to food. And all countries of the European Union have ratified this treaty. It is the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Its article 11 says:
1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.
2. The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed:
(a) To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources;
(b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.
I need to remind you that it cannot remain a good intention. By accepting the ratification of this International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights your country has given a message to the international community: Germany will do everything that is possible to develop these human rights. This pledge does not permit you to go backward. International cooperation is also required. The pledge has also a value in regard to the international institutions where you are involved. Germany is involved in the European Union: the German international pledge is there also of application.
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RépondreSupprimerI remind you also the point 15 about the right to sufficient food developed by the Committee on economic, social and cultural rights report on the twentieth and twenty-first sessions (26 April-14 may 1999, 15 November-3 December 1999):
"15. The right to adequate food, like any other human right, imposes three types or levels of obligations on States parties: the obligations to respect, to protect and to fulfil. In turn, the obligation to fulfil incorporates both an obligation to facilitate and an obligation to provide.
The obligation to respect existing access to adequate food requires States parties not to take any measures that result in preventing such access. The obligation to protect requires measures by the State to ensure that enterprises or individuals do not deprive individuals of their access to adequate food. The obligation to fulfil (facilitate) means the State must proactively engage in activities intended to strengthen people’s access to and utilization of resources and means to ensure their livelihood, including food security. Finally, whenever an individual or group is unable, for reasons beyond their control, to enjoy the right to adequate food by the means at their disposal, States have the obligation to fulfil (provide) that right directly."
I insist on the following words: "The obligation to fulfil (facilitate) means the State must proactively engage in activities intended to strengthen people’s access to and utilization of resources and means to ensure their livelihood, including food security." Where can I see in your policy that your country is proactively engaged in strengthening access to food security ? Please help me to understand where is the respect by the German authorities of their international obligations in regard to food.
I call upon your attention: hunger is an important problem. In history you can find events where hunger has brought population to the war. Peace is important for Europe and for mankind but the risk of social troubles exists and is important when people suffer from hunger. That is a responsibility of the leaders to eradicate the conditions of poverty and hunger that create social unrest. That is your responsibility. The European Union has received the Nobel prize. How is it acceptable when European citizens suffer from hunger? Please learn from History !
In 1941 the President of USA said the importance of the 4 freedoms. One freedom is the freedom from want -- which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants -- everywhere in the world. The inhabitants of the European Union may not be hungry. They are human beings and not statistics. Do not forget it.
I want - because I am a human being - that you change the position of the German authorities in regard to food support.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Eric Watteau
Belgien
Copy of this letter is sent to the German press and authorities.