Field (Bourdieu)

About: Field (Bourdieu) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 180769 citations.

Genealogy of an Emerging Field: Foundations for the Study of Media and Religion

Abstract: (2002) Genealogy of an Emerging Field: Foundations for the Study of Media and Religion Journal of Media and Religion: Vol 1, No 1, pp 5-12

How to become an academic philosopher. Academic discourse as multileveled positioning practice

Abstract: In my contribution, I will present the power-knowledge approach to academic discourse. Drawing from poststructuralist and pragmatic developments in socialtheory, this model the practical challenge academic researchers have to meet in academic discourse: to secure a place in the social world of researchers. The researchers who participate in academic discourse typically need to straddle two types of positions: on the one hand they need to find their place among the many scientific communities, i.e. in the world of specialised knowledge. On theother hand, they need to be placed in a higher education institution with its status groups, hierarchies and bureaucratic rules, i.e. in the world of institutionalpower. If researchers want to occupy the most desirable positions in the academic field, they need to succeed in both worlds at the same time. Whilecareers, strategies and recipes can differ widely between researchers, researchers engage in academic discourse as an ongoing, publication-based positioningprocess in which symbolic positions (i.e. as a specialist of late antiquity) need to be gradually turned into institutional positions (i.e. as a Professor of AncientHistory).

A Public Servant

Abstract: When Pierre Bourdieu died onJanuary 23, a torrent of tributes, commentaries, and memories flooded the French media. Le Monde stopped the presses to make his demise the lead story. Although he had been a severe critic of their policies, the prime minister, Lionel Jospin, and President Jacques Chirac both considered it politic to pay homage. The Centre Georges Pompidou held a public tribute. The New York Times carried an obituary on page 41. Most readers had probably never heard of this "French Thinker and Globalization Critic." In spite of Bourdieu's numerous studies of the world of visual culture and the special interest of October in French-inspired discourse, he did not rank among those Parisians frequently credited in this journal's footnotes. In English-speaking countries Bourdieu had, in fact, a relatively minimal presence outside of certain sociology departments. The more recent import of French intellectual fare was dominated by other names: Lacan, Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Deleuze. For a while even Jean Baudrillard held a sizable market share, particularly in the art and advertising industry (for years his name graced the masthead of Artforum). It would be a fascinating research project-in the tradition of Homo Academicus (Bourdieu's study of his own academic milieu, published in 1984)-to explore the forces behind the relatively tepid reception of his investigations in the "field" of cultural production in comparison to the extensive following enjoyed by his French peers outre-mer. This aloofness vis-a-vis a fellow critical intellectual is particularly surprising in light of the International Sociological Association's listing Bourdieu's Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (1979) among the ten most important works of sociology of the twentieth century. When the Centre Georges Pompidou asked me to contribute to its "Hommage 'a Pierre Bourdieu," I posed the following rhetorical question: What does it mean that the Pompidou is holding this tribute? Had he not laid bare the often unacknowledged role played by the enormous "symbolic capital" held by institutions such as this one, with which they-like other educational, religious, and cultural institutions that are shaping our respective "habitus"-commit what he termed "symbolic violence?" Had he not assailed them for surrendering a large part of that capital to the public-relations apparatuses of corporations and

Social inclusion of people with disabilities. National and international perspectives

Abstract: Arie Rimmerman has written a book on disability policy, emphasising the “human rights turn” that has taken place in this policy field. The human rights turn is related to the ratification of the Co...