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Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most influential social thinkers of the past half-century, known for both his theoretical and methodological contributions and his wide-ranging empirical investigations into colonial power in Algeria, the educational system in France, the forms of state power, and the history of artistic and scientific fields-among many other topics. Despite the depth and breadth of his influence, however, Bourdieu's legacy has yet to be assessed in a comprehensive manner. The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu fills this gap by offering a sweeping overview of Bourdieu's impact on the social sciences and humanities.
Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz have gathered a diverse array of leading scholars who place Bourdieu's work in the wider scope of intellectual history, trace the development of his thought, offer original interpretations and critical engagement, and discuss the likely impact of his ideas on future social research. The Handbook highlights Bourdieu's contributions to established areas of research-including the study of markets, the law, cultural production, and politics-and illustrates how his concepts have generated new fields and objects of study.
Contents
Introduction
1. Pierre Bourdieu, a Twentieth Century Life
Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz
PART I: REGIONAL PATTERNS OF APPROPRIATION
2. Bourdieu's International Circulation: An Exercise in Intellectual Mapping
Marco Santoro, Andrea Gallelli and Barbara Grüning
3. On the Reception of Bourdieu in the World's Most Equal Societies
Johs Hjellbrekke and Annick Prieur
4. Bourdieu's Uneven Influence in Anglophone Canadian Sociology
John McLevey, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard
5. Reading Bourdieu in South Africa
Karl von Holdt
6. Bourdieu in the Post-Communist World
Liliana Pop
PART II: TAKING BOURDIEU GLOBAL
7. Field Theory From a Transnational Perspective
Gisèle Sapiro
8. Transnational Social Fields
Niilo Kauppi
9. Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations
Antonin Cohen
PART III: DISCIPLINES AND SUBFIELDS
10. The Scientific Method and the Social Hierarchy of Objects
Pierre Bourdieu
11. Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Education: Institutional Form and Social Inequality
Elliot B. Weininger and Annette Lareau
12. Bourdieu and Organizations: Hidden Traces, Macro Influence, and Micro Potential
Tim Hallett and Matthew Gougherty
13. Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion: Recent Developments, Directions and Departures
Terry Rey
14. The Transdisciplinary Contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the Study of the Academic Field and Intellectuals
Christophe Charle (trans. Kristin Couper)
PART IV: BOURDIEU'S CONCEPTS EMBEDDED
15. Bourdieu's Capital(s): Sociologizing an Economic Concept
Erik Neveu
16. The Poverty of Philosophy: Marx Meets Bourdieu
Michael Burawoy
17. Bourdieu and Schutz: Bringing Together Two Sons of Husserl
Will Atkinson
18. Pierre Bourdieu and the Unthought Colonial State
Franck Poupeau
19. Bourdieu's Unlikely Contribution to the Human Sciences
John Levi Martin
20. Bourdieu and the Sociology of Intellectual Life
Thomas Medvetz
PART V: BOURDIEU'S CONCEPTS AS GENERATIVE AND OPEN-ENDED
21. Is a Bourdieusian Ethnography Possible?
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
22. Bourdieu and Geometric Data Analysis
Frédéric Lebaron and Brigitte Le Roux
23. Correspondence Analysis and Bourdieu's Approach to Statistics: Using Correspondence Analysis Within Field Theory
Julien Duval
24. A Concise Genealogy and Anatomy of Habitus
Loïc Wacquant
25. Habitus and Beyond: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant Looking at the Seams
Claudio E. Benzecry
26. Bourdieu and the Body
Catherine Connell and Ashley Mears
27. Tensions, Actors, and Inventions: Bourdieu's Sociology of the State as an Unfinished but Promising Research Program
Jens Arnholtz
28. Bourdieusian Field Theory and the Reorientation of Historical Sociology
George Steinmetz
29. The Relevance of Bourdieu's Concepts for Studying the Intersections of Poverty, Race, and Culture
Kerry Woodward
30. Four Transversal Principles for Putting Bourdieu to Work
Loïc Wacquant
