L'emprise des groupes
Sur l'édition française au début des années 1980
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3018254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Reynaud (0000-0002-6208-9907, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 130 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 3-10 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0335-5322 • E-ISSN: 1955-2564 |
| Publisher | CAIRN (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3917/arss.p1999.130n1.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W4248757061, W2020940528 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
The influence of conglomerates on French publishing in the early 1980s With the entry of Havas and Matra into publishing at the start of the 1980s, the field began such a profound transformation that one could speak of the invention of a new sector, publication-communication, that views the book in the same way as any other product of communication. The present article explores the conditions of this metamorphosis, which has nothing natural about it, owing to the distance between the social worlds, to the difficult of exploiting a symbolic capital built up first by the founders of the publishing houses and then their heirs, and finally to the impossibility of gaining access to the network of specific relations and contacts necessary to the renewal of this capital. The author focuses first on the economic, political and symbolic interests the two groups have in occupying a dominant position in the publishing world. The process involved is not simply one of imposing economic logic on all other logics - political, cultural and symbolic. Finally these groups are shown to have succeeded in seizing power not only because they have a masterful grasp of financial engineering, but also because they are backed by banks and supported by the bureaucratic and political field. It has been possible to follow the steps that led to the Matra-Hachette and the Havas-Presses de la Cite mergers rather than to other combinations now known to have been possible and historically envisaged. The outeome was neither arbitrary nor foreordained by a State whose monolithic character is a mental construct : the people who count in the final alliances, while all coming from the bureaucratic and political field, embody specific logics and express different positions in this field
Art · Bureaucracy · Humanities · Impossibility · Political science · Politics · Publishing · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic capital · Computer Science · Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Literature and Culture Studies · Social Sciences and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |