Johan Heilbron
Visiting professor at Department of Education
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1 A
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 2136
750 02 Uppsala
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Short presentation
Johan Heilbron is a historical sociologist, trained at the University of Amsterdam and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Currently guest professor at the Centre for Higher Education and Research as Objects of Study (HERO) and the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, he is a regular member of the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique (CESSP-CNRS-EHESS) in Paris.
Research
His research areas concern the historical development of the social and human sciences, economic organizations and institutions, and transnational exchange and cultural globalization.
Book publications include: The Rise of Social Theory (1995, also in French, Dutch, Portuguese), The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity (co-edited, 2001), Pour une histoire des sciences sociales (co-edited, 2004), Transnational Cultural Exchange and Globalization (2010), French Sociology (2015, also in French), Nederlandse kunst in de wereld (co-authored, 2015), De zaak Organon, (co-authored, 2018), New Directions in Elite Studies (co-edited, 2018), The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations (co-edited 2018), Dictionnaire International Bourdieu (co-edited, 2020), and Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique (co-authored,2022).

Publications
Recent publications
Reconceptualizing National Traditions in Intellectual History
Part of The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas, p. 220-235, Routledge, 2024
Politique de la traduction. Comment les États façonnent les transferts culturels
Part of Politika, 2024
Part of Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, p. 396-396, 2024
Part of De Nederlandse Boekengid, p. 27-28, 2024
Part of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2024
All publications
Articles in journal
Politique de la traduction. Comment les États façonnent les transferts culturels
Part of Politika, 2024
Part of The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2024
Colonial Sociology and the Historical Sociology of the Social Sciences
Part of Social science history, p. 161-164, 2024
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Part of Revista Pós Ciências Sociais, p. 251-269, 2023
- DOI for 'A sociologia...quando ela é bem feita'. Entrevista, 1984-1985: ['Sociology... when it is done well'. Interview, 1984-1985]
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Part of Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, 2023
- DOI for Studying Long-Term Processes in Human History: [Die Erforschung von langfristigen Prozessen in der Menschheitsgeschichte]
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Anti (sciences) sociales, tu perds ton sang-froid !
Part of Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, p. 4-17, 2022
Het belastingstelsel is een wangedrocht
Part of NRC Handelsblad, p. 7-8, 2021
Obtaining World Fame from the Periphery
Part of Dutch Crossing, p. 136-144, 2020
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Books
Editora da Universidade de Sao Paolo, 2022
Édition École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2022
Chapters in book
Reconceptualizing National Traditions in Intellectual History
Part of The Routledge Handbook of the History and Sociology of Ideas, p. 220-235, Routledge, 2024
Part of Geldschieters, p. 7-10, Mazirel Pers, 2023
Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science
Part of The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass, p. 262-284, Duke University Press, 2023
Au Centre de sociologie européenne
Part of Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique. Enquêter au Centre de sociologie européenne (1959-1969), p. 121-173, Classiques Garnier, 2022
Une recherche anamnestique, le Béarn
Part of Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique. Enquêter au Centre de sociologie européenne (1959-1969), p. 71-120, Classiques Garnier, 2022
Part of O Nascimento da Sociologia, p. 393-399, Editora da Universidade de Sao Paolo, 2022
Part of Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique. Enquêter au Centre de sociologie européenne (1959-1969), p. 403-4023, Classiques Garnier, 2022
Introduction: comment comprendre une œuvre scientifique?
Part of Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique. Enquêter au Centre de sociologie européenne (1959-1969), p. 11-40, Bibliothèque des sciences sociales, 2022
Part of Pierre Bourdieu et l’art de l’invention scientifique. Enquêter au Centre de sociologie européenne (1959-1969), p. 7-10, Bibliothèque des sciences sociales, 2022
Part of La Société transnationale. Langues, cultures et politiques, p. 7-11, Éditions du Seuil, 2022
Introduction: de la vigilance épistémologique à la réflexivité
Part of Retour sur la réflexivité, p. 9-31, Édition École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 2022
The Emergence of Social Theory
Part of The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory. Volume one: A Contested Canon, p. 1-23, Cambridge University Press, 2021
Collections (editor)
Other
Part of Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, p. 396-396, 2024
Part of De Nederlandse Boekengid, p. 27-28, 2024
Part of De Nederlandse Boekengid, p. 7-9, 2021
Het grootstkapitaal: vermogensongelijkheid in de VS en Nederland
Part of De Nederlandse Boekengid, p. 8-12, 2021