Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context

Essays from India and France
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-40114-2
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

This collection of articles is based on an Indo-French seminar on Pierre Bourdieu held to honour the work of this innovative social thinker who died in January 2002. It discusses the crises of imperial societies; the concept of state for Bourdieu and Foucault; Bourdieu’s theory of the symbolic; literature and politics during the German occupation; symbolic violence and masculine dominance in the Vichy regime; the notion of habitus, performance and women’s experience in everyday life; Bourdieu and anthropology; and violence in the Bombay riots. Students and teachers alike will find it a stimulating read.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lardinois, Roland

Thapan, Meenakshi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by the Editors 1. The Crises of Imperial Societies 2. Thinking the State with Bourdieu and Foucault 3. Bourdieu’s Theory of the Symbolic: Traditions and Innovations 4. The Field of Indian Knowledge in France in the 1930s 5. Literature and Politics During the German Occupation 6. Symbolic Violence and Masculine dominance in the Vichy Regime 7. Habitus, Performance and Women’s Experience in Everyday Life 8. Pierre Bourdieu and Anthropology 9. Documents and Testimony: Violence in the Bombay Riots. Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roland Lardinois teaches at the CNRS, Paris.

Meenakshi Thapan teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.