Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context

Essays from India and France
Herausgeber: Lardinois, Roland; Thapan, Meenakshi

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Produktbeschreibung

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. His work, as this book shows, is discussed around the world and his conceptual tools are used by scholars to analyze such diverse issues as economic sociology, media, and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781138376717
• ISBN-10: 113837671X
• Artikelnr.: 55982935

Autorenporträt

Roland Lardinois teaches at the CNRS, Paris. Meenakshi Thapan teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.

Inhaltsangabe

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