The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu, Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz

The Oxford Handbook of Pierre Bourdieu  

Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz

Oxford University Press

2018

Présentation de l'éditeur

Pierre Bourdieu was arguably the most important social theorist of the twentieth century. A French sociologist, he produced during his lifetime scores of empirical studies that laid the foundation for a rich theoretical program. These included studies of French colonialism in Algeria, the education system in France, new forms of state power, and the rise of autonomous artistic and scientific fields. Bourdieu’s research program was grounded in concepts such as habitus, field, forms of capital, and symbolic domination. Although most of these concepts have long historical legacies, Bourdieu elaborated conjoined them in an entirely originzal way, This Handbook assesses Pierred Bourdieu’s legacy from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century. It brings together a diverse array of contributors who consider how Bourdieu has advanced research and thinking in a variety of fields and areas. In particular, it considers how Bourdieu’s work has been appropriated for study in various regions of the world; how scholars have used Bourdieu to understand emergent transnational phenomena; how Bourdieu’s ideas have reshaped various disciplines and subfields; the ways in which Bourdieu’s concepts are embedded in long-standing theoretical traditions and debates; and the many ways in which Bourdieu’s research has generated entirely new fields and objects of study. 

Thomas Medvetz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego and author of Think Tanks in America. 

Jeffrey J. Sallaz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona and author of The Labor of Luck and Labor, Economy and Societ

Measuring Social Class: Bourdieusian Approaches, University of Bath, 15 novembre 2013

Measuring Social Class: Bourdieusian Approaches

15 November 2013

Time: 12:00-17:00
Location: Chancellor's Building 3.5 , University of Bath
Speaker:  MikeSavage (London School of Economics) & WillAtkinson (University of Bristol)
BSA Bourdieu Study Group Event in Conjunction with the Centre for the  Analysis of Social Policy (CASP) University of Bath

About the seminar

Debates around ways of measuring social class have recently gained momentum through the work of Savage et al, popularized by the Great British Class Survey, a major study of social class patterns in contemporary Britain. This work draws on the many criticisms that have persisted over the last decade or more about the inadequacy of models of class analysis that rely fundamentally on an economic measurement of class position. These criticisms flag up the complexities of social class measurement and suggest that other factors such as social and cultural capital are important in trying to locate someone’s class position. These multiple factors of analysis have become increasingly important as patterns of work and consumption have changed with the loss of industry within the UK and other capitalist societies. This workshop aims to generate discussion about the best ways to try to define and measure social class in contemporary Britain. It will do so by drawing on Bourdieusian theory and engaging with papers by Professor Mike Savage and Dr. Will Atkinson, who each offer their own perspective on utilizing a multiple capitals approach to ascertaining class positioning. It will interrogate the problems and benefits of using these approaches and consider the best ways in which Bourdieusian theory can forward class analysis. The workshop is limited to 50 people and will involve keynote presentations as well as discussion groups.

The workshop will be followed by a wine reception open to all attendees.

Attend this event

This event costs £30 for BSA members and £40 for non-members and includes refreshments
and lunch.
Register Here. Early booking is recommended as we anticipate this to be a popular event.

For further information please contact: events@britsoc.org.uk or Tel: (0191) 383 0839
For academic queries please contact: Dr. Nicola Ingram at n.ingram@Bath.ac.uk

(source: BSA Bourdieu Study Group)
 

Class Inequality in Austerity/ Britain Power, Difference and Suffering

Class Inequality in Austerity Britain 
Power, Difference and Suffering 
Edited by Will Atkinson Steven Roberts and Mike Savage
Palgrave Macmillan
2012

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of domination in the early 21st Century.

Introduction: A Critical Sociology of the Age of Austerity; W.Atkinson, S.Roberts & M.Savage
Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence; W.Atkinson
"We never get a fair chance": Working-class Experiences of Education in the Twenty-First Century; D.Reay
Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-class Student Experience; H.Bradley & N.Ingram
"Aspirations" and Imagined Futures: The Im/possibilities for Britain's Young Working Class; S.Roberts & S.Evans
Personalising Poverty: Parental Determinism and the "Big Society" Agenda; V.Gillies
The Urban Outcasts of the British City; M.Clement
The Devalued and Stigmatized Working Class: The State of a Council Estate; L.McKenzie
Broken Communities?; M.SavageFacing the Challenge of the Return of the Rich; A.Sayer
Conclusion: Three Challenges to the Exportation of Sociological Knowledge; W.Atkinson, S.Roberts & M.Savage

WILL ATKINSON is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

STEVE ROBERTS is is Lecturer in Social Policy and Sociology at the University of Kent, UK
MIKE SAVAGE is is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bergen, Norway and York, UK and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK

 

Workshop: Symbolic power and urban inequality: taking Bourdieu to town, 31 mai-01 juin 2012

". En mai prochain se tiendra à York une conférence organisée avec des collègues britanniques qui réunira des chercheurs du monde entier pour "Emmener Bourdieu en ville", soit tirer un bilan des mérites et des limites de la théorie bourdieusienne appliquée aux études urbaines. Dans tous les cas, il ne s'agit nullement de célébrer un maître momifié mais de mettre ses travaux au travail, en élargissant et en approfondissant les modèles qu'il a construit, mais aussi en les révisant et en les réfutant pour les dépasser lorsque c'est possible. Ainsi va la science et Bourdieu ne l'aurait pas voulu autrement. La grande force de sa pensée réside justement dans le rare alliage qu'elle opère entre la foi dans la raison et l'énergie iconoclaste avec laquelle il l'applique au monde social, et au monde scientifique en tout premier lieu" Loïc Wacquant, Propos recueillis par Nicolas Truong, Le Monde, 23.01.2012

Symbolic power and urban inequality: taking Bourdieu to town

SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP, UNIVERSITY OF YORK, MAY 31ST – JUNE 1ST  2012

Hosts:  the York European Centre for Cultural Exploration (YECCE) and the Centre for Urban Research (CURB)

Organisers: Mike Savage and Loic Wacquant

The city remains the site of entrenched social and cultural divisions, which take new and acute forms in polarising urban environments. Although the economic dimensions of these are relatively well researched, they also involve a key symbolic and moral dimension, which will be the focus of this workshop. This workshop will explore the role of field analysis in developing conceptual tools for analysing urban inequality; reflect on the role of cultural capital and symbolic violence in urban space, and contribute to our understanding of the spatialisation of urban inequality

The event will comprise two linked sections. On the first day, leading scholars from across the world will be invited to give papers as part of the preparation of a special issue of a leading urban journal. For the workshop on the second day, there will be an open call for papers from any researcher wishing to contribute a paper on any of the themes listed here. Discussants and chairs will be arranged from amongst the speakers on the seminar on the first

Seminar 31 May 2012

09.00–10.30 - Morning 1: Territorial segregation and seclusion and the spatialization of inequality in the city

1. Franck Poupeau, Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, EHESS, Paris
2. Rowland Atkinson/ Simon Parker, University of York
3. Annick Prieur, University of Aalborg, author of Mema’s House,
   Discussant: Loic Wacquant, University of Berkeley

10.30-11.00 - Refreshments
11.00-13.00 - Morning 2: Urban migration, ethnicity and precarity

1. Sebastien Chauvin, University of Amsterdam
2. Alford Young, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, author of The Mind of Marginalized Black Men
3. Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania, author of Righteous Dope fiend (to be confirmed)
   Discussant: Talja Blokland, Humboldt University, Berlin

13.00-14.00 – Lunch

14.00-15.30 - Afternoon 1: urban policy and the remaking of city space

1. Sylvie Tissot (Center for Urban Sociology, Paris), author of L'état et les Quartiers
2. Matt Desmond (Harvard Society of Fellows), author of forthcoming book on evictions in Milwaukee
3. Discussant: Michael Keith, University of Oxford

15.30-16.00 - Refreshments

16.00-15.30 - Afternoon 2: Symbolic domination, cultural capital and the urban middle classes

1. Mike Savage and Laurie Hanquinet, University of York
2. Maria-Luisa Mendez, University Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile
3. Patrick Le Gales. Sciences Po, Paris
4. Discussant: Tim Butler, Kings College, University of London

5.45: Special Public lecture, Loic Wacquant

Open to everyone venue to be confirmed

Workshop 1 June 2012

 Venue: Bowland Theatre, Berrick Saul Building

This day will consist of around 12 papers which will be selected from proposals submitted.  If you are interested to propose a paper please use the attached proposal form and send this to Josine Opmeer (Josine.Opmeer@york.ac.uk) by April 1st 2012. Abstracts should not be more than 250 words long and please indicate how your proposal links to the themes of this workshop.

A final selection of papers will be decided by April 15th, at which point the precise themes will be identified, and discussants arranged.

Location: Tree House, Berrick Saul Building, University of York

Admission: Combined ticket for 31 May and 1 June 150; Concessions combined ticket for 31 May and 1 June £75; 31 May only £100; Concessions 31 May only £50; 1 June only £100; Concessions 1 June only £50

Email: Josine.Omeer@york.ac.uk

Telephone: 01904 324738