Jacques Guigou

Jacques Guigou

is a French sociologist and poet born in 1941.

Biography

The son of Émile Guigou, from an old Vauvert[1] family [1], was born on 12 February 1941 in Guéret, in Creuse, where his father worked as departmental director of public health. His mother, Jeanne Fauché, is the niece of Gard senator Gaston Bazile [2].

He attended the boys' high school in Nîmes, while he received religious instruction at the Grand Temple [2]. He renounced the Protestant denomination at the age of 20, but nevertheless continued to claim a Calvinist influence [2].

Having undertaken sociology studies at the University of Montpellier, he defended a postgraduate thesis [2], [3], [4] on 21 June 1965, before being recruited at the National Institute for Adult Education [2]. At that time, he gave consulting services to both public and private companies [2].

In 1968, after military service as a development worker in Annaba (Algeria), he returned to metropolitan France to begin a university career in education sciences : recruited in 1971 as a lecturer at the University of Grenoble, he presented a state thesis on 22 March 1985 [2], [4], then was elected professor at Montpellier-III in 1991 [5].

In 1980, he published L'Infusé radical, the first in a long series of poetry collections [2]. Satisfying his interest in books and typography, he was also the creator (in 1984) of the editions of L'Impliqué [2], of which he also became the director [5]. Together with Jacques Wajnsztejn, he launched the journal Temps critiques [6]. In 1989, he founded the collection of the same name published by L'Harmattan [2].

He retired in 2009 and became an emeritus [2]. However, he continued his involvement in the poetic life, appearing in particular in the office of the Maison de la Poésie Jean-Joubert [7], and continued his publishing and critical reflection activities.

Personal life

He marries Claire Saint-Martin, daughter of Pastor Jean Saint-Martin ; they have two daughters, Anne and the sociologist and dancer Muriel Guigou [2]. Divorced, he remarries Nicole Versini, who gives him a third daughter, Blanche [2].

Work

He devoted his thesis in 1965 to "young rural people" in Languedoc [2], [8], then specialised in the relationship between work and training, which led him to study long life education and, from 1972, to propose a critique of training systems [4]. He thus analyses "stagification", conceptualised in 1975 and then the subject of his State thesis in 1985, as a process of social normalisation of employees, reduced to highlighting the human capital they represent [9], [4]. The term has a certain fortune in the sociological literature [10],[11], while the practice of internships is becoming established in continuing vocational training [12], but raises controversies among the actors of this same training system [2]. A symposium will take stock of the implications of this stagification theory in Montpellier in 2012 [2].

As part of his activities as a publisher and reviewer, he is interested with Wajnsztejn in the historical-political context of the political movements following May 68 in France and the Creeping May in Italy [2]. He gets himself involved in these movements, subscribing to critical theory and commenting in particular on Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Camatte and Fredy Perlman [2]. Moreover, it is in this critical vein that he explores the historical concepts of Marxism and anarchism (value-labour, social classes, proletarian revolution, etc.) [2]. 2]. He further proposes that the failure of self-management has engendered a hyper-individualist "egogestion" [Note 1].

He says he writes what he "hopes to be" of poetry[1], the fruit of his contemplation of the world[2]. 2] He draws his inspiration from the shores of the Grau-du-Roi[13],[14] in particular. Commenting on Vents indivisif, Gaston Marty notes some key images, such as the body, central, or the omnipresent light[15]; Jean-Pierre Védrines also emphasises the "authentic stripping of [his] writing"[16]. 16] In 2020, he will compile his Poésie complète in a single volume of some 700 pages.

Books

Critique des systèmes de formation : analyse institutionnelle de diverses pratiques d'éducation des adultes, Paris, Anthropos, 1972 (notice BnF no FRBNF35189666).

Les Analyseurs de la formation permanente, Anthropos, 1979 (ISBN 2-7157-0317-1).

L'Infusé radical, Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 1980 (ISBN 2-243-01316-9).

L'Institution de l'analyse dans les rencontres, Anthropos, 1981 (ISBN 2-7157-1045-3).

Contre toute attente le moment combat, Dominique Bedou, 1983 (ISBN 2-9030-9616-3).

Ce monde au nid, Gourdon, Dominique Bedou, 1986 (notice BnF no FRBNF34867626).

La Cité des ego, Grenoble, L'Impliqué, 1987 (ISBN 2-906623-00-8).

Temps titré, Dominique Bedou, 1988 (ISBN 2-903096-65-1).

Blanches, L'Impliqué, 1993 (ISBN 2-906623-05-9).

Une aube sous les doigts, L'Harmattan, 1994 (ISBN 2-7384-2568-2).

Elle entre, L'Harmattan, 1995 (ISBN 2-7384-3666-8).

Son chant, L'Harmattan, 1997 (ISBN 2-7384-5125-X).

Dir. avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, L'Individu et la communauté humaine, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1998 (ISBN 2-7384-6771-7).

Sables intouchables, L'Harmattan, 1999 (ISBN 2-73847561-2).

Dir. avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, La Valeur sans le travail, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999 (ISBN 2-7384-7812-3).

Ici primordial, L'Harmattan, 2001 (ISBN 2-7475-1468-4).

L'institution résorbée, L'Impliqué, 2001 (ISBN 2-906623-09-1).

Dir. avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, Violences et Globalisation, L'Harmattan, 2003 (ISBN 2-7475-5744-8).

Avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, L'Évanescence de la valeur : une présentation critique du groupe Krisis, L'Harmattan, 2004 (ISBN 2-7475-7046-0).

Vents indivisant, L'Harmattan, 2004 (ISBN 2-7475-6971-3).

Prononcer, Garder, L'Harmattan, 2007 (ISBN 978-2-296-04244-5).

Avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, Crise financière et capital fictif, L'Harmattan, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-296-07720-1).

Avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, Mai 1968 et le mai rampant italien, L'Harmattan, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-296-05530-8).

Par les fonds soulevés, L'Harmattan, 2010 (ISBN 978-2-296-11272-8).

Strophes aux Aresquiers, L'Impliqué, 2010 (ISBN 2-906623-16-4). Édition bilingue, traduction en occitan par Jean-Marie Petit.

Des émancipés anthropologiques, L'Impliqué, (ISBN 978-2-906623-18-7).

La mer, presque, L'Harmattan, 2011 (ISBN 978-2-296-55417-7).

Augure du grau, L'Harmattan, 2012 (ISBN 978-2-296-99340-2).

Exhaussé de l'instant, L'Harmattan, 2013 (ISBN 978-2-343-01249-0).

Dir. avec Jacques Wajnsztejn, La société capitalisée, L'Harmattan, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-343-03535-2).

Une autonomisation du sexe : le genre, L'Impliqué, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-906623-22-4).

Sur la page de gauche, L'Impliqué, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-906623-23-1).

D'emblée, L'Harmattan, 2015 (ISBN 978-2-343-06563-2).

L'Envie de révolution française des Gilets jaunes, Montpellier, L'Impliqué, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-906623-33-0).

Le Chant du phare, L'Impliqué, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-906623-34-7).

Poétiques révolutionnaires et poésie, L'Harmattan, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-343-17262-0).

Fragiles (ill. Raphaël Ségura), L'Impliqué, 2019 (ISBN 978-2-906623-37-8).

Avènement d'un rivage, L'Harmattan, 2019 — édition bilingue, avec traduction en provençal par Jean-Claude Forêt. (ISBN 978-2-343-18531-6).

Poésie complète (1980-2020), L'Impliqué, 2020 (ISBN 978-2-906623-38-5).

L'État sous ses deux formes nation et réseau, L'Impliqué, 2021 (ISBN 978-2-906623-40-8).