Full Description
Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu's reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and reflections utilizing field analysis, the eighteen chapters by prominent Bourdieusian scholars and early career scholars synthesize key insights and challenges scholars face when going 'beyond the fields we know'. The chapters offer examples from discipline contexts as diverse as cultural studies, poetry, welfare systems, water management, education, journalism and surfing and provide demonstrations of theorizing within practical examples of field analysis. One of the foremost social philosophers and sociologists of the twentieth century, Bourdieu is widely known in cultural studies and education and his approaches are increasingly being taken up in health, social work, anthropology, family studies, journalism, communication studies and other disciplines where an analysis of the interplay between individuals and social structures is relevant. With its unique interdisciplinary focus, this book provides a useful guide to doing field analysis and working with Bourdieusian methods research, as well as key reading for methodology courses at post-graduate level.
Contents
Introduction: On doing field analysis.- Drought and water policy in the western United States: Genesis and structure of a multi-level field.- Masculine learner identities in the field of student-directed musical learning.- Poetry and the conditions of practice: A field study.- Academic literacy support: Challenging the logic of practice.- Transformations of the Danish field of welfare work - shifting forms of dominated capital.- Breaking from the field: participant observation and Bourdieu's participant objectivation.- Framing a 'community of consumption': Field theory, multi-perspectival discourse analysis and the commercialisation of teaching.- Reshaping the field from the outside in: Aboriginal people and student journalists working together.- Cultural Innovation on the Fringe - The Fields of 'Limited' and 'Extensive' Production.- Bourdieusian reflexivity in insider research in higher education: Considering participants as a critical audience.- Positioning participation in the field of surfing: Sex, equity, and illusion.- Conceptualising strategies open to players within the field of Australian boys' education.- Field theory, space and time.- Governing cultural fields.- Thinking like Bourdieu: Completing the mental revolution with Legitimation Code Theory.
