Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context Essays from India and France |
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| Editor:
| Lardinois, Roland
Thapan, Meenakshi |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-40114-2 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge India |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $200.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.