La concurrence des experts. Ou qui a le droit de dire ce qu’est la “traite des blanches” dans l’Allemagne de Weimar
Through a polemic which broke out in 1929 in the Jewish associative and social medium of the Weimar Republic, this article looks into the problematic of establishing expertise. At the time, various contending actors each claimed to have legitimacy, “to know the truth” about white slavery in Germany....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Catholique de Louvain
2008-04-01
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| Series: | Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/408 |
| Summary: | Through a polemic which broke out in 1929 in the Jewish associative and social medium of the Weimar Republic, this article looks into the problematic of establishing expertise. At the time, various contending actors each claimed to have legitimacy, “to know the truth” about white slavery in Germany. The “field of savants”, composed of authors issuing from the human sciences - like Max Kreutzberger, were opposed by the “the experimental field”, composed of people working in Jewish associations that tried to establish a bond between slavery, prostitution and moral combat. This polemic is a revealing case study of the tensions which arose in the development of social knowledge on prostitution in the inter-war period. |
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| ISSN: | 1782-1592 2033-7485 |