Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context: essays from India and France

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TextPublication details: London Routledge 2006Description: viii, 313p., hbISBN:

9780415401142

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301.092 LAR

Summary: This volume presents critical essays from contributors across India and France on reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context. It covers themes such as the crises of imperial societies; reconceiving the state with Bourdieu and Foucault; Bourdieu’s theory of the symbolic, and traditions and innovations; the field of Indian knowledge in France in the 1930s; literature and politics during the German occupation; symbolic violence and masculine dominance in the Vichy regime; habitus, performance and women’s experience in everyday life; Bourdieu and anthropology; and documents and testimony from violence in the Bombay riots.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Gratis Resources	Plaksha University Library	Sociology	301.092 LAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G000482

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This volume presents critical essays from contributors across India and France on reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context. It covers themes such as the crises of imperial societies; reconceiving the state with Bourdieu and Foucault; Bourdieu’s theory of the symbolic, and traditions and innovations; the field of Indian knowledge in France in the 1930s; literature and politics during the German occupation; symbolic violence and masculine dominance in the Vichy regime; habitus, performance and women’s experience in everyday life; Bourdieu and anthropology; and documents and testimony from violence in the Bombay riots.

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