Full Description
Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established and emergent scholars together to debate the futures of a specifically Bourdieusian sociology. Driven by a central leitmotif in Bourdieu's oeuvre, namely, that his work not be blindly appropriated but actively interpreted, contributors to this volume set out to map the potentials of Bourdieusian inflected social science. While for many social scientists the empirical and theoretical developments of the twenty-first century mark a limit point of Bourdieusian social theory, this collection charts both how and why a Bourdieusian sociology has a future, which is crucial for the ongoing development and roll out of an engaged, relevant and critical social science.
Contents
1. Introduction: The Prospects of a Bourdieusian Sociology, (Caragh Brosnan and Steven Threadgold)
2. Learning with Bourdieu: Pedagogy, Cosmology and Potty-Training, (Greg Noble)
3. Travelling with Bourdieu: Elite Schools and the Cultural Logics and Limits of Global Mobility, (Jane Kenway
4. Bourdieu and the Future of Knowledge in the University, (Caragh Brosnan)
5. Pierre Bourdieu: State, Enlightenment and the Scottish Literary Field, (Bridget Fowler)
6. Capitalising Culture: The Political Career of a Governmental Actor, (Tony Bennett)
7. Objects and Materials: With, against and beyond Bourdieu, (Elizabeth B. Silva)
8. Hermeneutic Bourdieu, (Simon Susen)
