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Call for Papers: The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu
CALL FOR PAPERS The contemporary relevance of the work of Pierre Bourdieu BSA Bourdieu Study Group’s Inaugural Biennial Conference 2016 Organised in association with the School of Sociology, Politics...
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An Archerian reading of Bourdieu: the reflexive imperative as the...
I’ve just cut this out of a paper I’m working on. It’s not up to scratch and it doesn’t really contribute anything to the development of the paper. But it’s an idea I’m planning to return to in future,...
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Before Bourdieu, there was Orwell
I love this little passage, quoted on pg 172 of Zizek’s Trouble in Paradise: We all rail against class-distinctions, but very few people seriously want to abolish them. Here you come upon the important...
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The Philosophical Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
I’m at an interesting workshop being given by Loic Wacquant on the practical application of Bourdieu’s social theory. An aspect that has really stood out to me so far is Wacquant’s presentation of...
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The Relative Autonomy of Symbolic Mediation
A quick note on the Wacquant workshop. We’ve turned to habitus and he’s offered the unproblematic claim that we always encounter the physical world through the prism of symbols. Social relations...
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Pierre Bourdieu, post-war Algeria and the existential conditions for...
In an early essay on post-war Algeria, Pierre Bourdieu reflected on the existential experience of the urban sub-proletariat and its political significance. This is reproduced on pg 16 of Political...
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Pierre Bourdieu, liberal thought and the ontology of collectives
Well over a decade ago, I was due to start a PhD in Political Philosophy looking at ideas of the individual within liberal thought. There are many reasons why I ultimately moved into a Sociology...
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Social media didn’t create the ambition to rethink scholarly communication,...
When we talk about the possibilities which digital media offer for rethinking scholarly communication, it’s easy to slip into the trap of thinking this ambition is a new one. We counterpoise the ‘new’...
View ArticleThe missing history of the practical intellectuals
One of my pet hates is the legacy of the ‘intellectual’, with its connotations of heroic figures speaking truth to power. This is recognised even by those who seek to retain the notion, as was the case...
View ArticleAgainst spontaneous sociology: Michael Burawoy’s attempt to rescue Bourdieu...
My notes on Burawoy, M. (2017). On Desmond: the limits of spontaneous sociology. Theory and Society, 46(4), 261-284. The work of Matthew Desmond has won enormous acclaim in recent years, with Evicted...
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