Introduction. “The circulation of words and ideas between the academic and the activist world”

In 1983, the Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, philosopher, and political activist, Edward Said, wrote an essay entitled Travelling Theory which soon transcended the boundaries of the discipline in which it had first appeared –literary theory– and precisely “travelled” through the humanities and the social sciences where it had a major influence on conceptions about the genealogy of knowledge and the history of ideas. In his essay, Said starts from a simple principle, which is ...