Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context: essays from India and France - London Routledge 2006 - viii, 313p., hb.

https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Pierre-Bourdieu-in-a-Dual-Context-Essays-from-India-and-France/Lardinois-Thapan/p/book/9781138376717

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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Imperial Societies - Christophe Charle
Bourdieu and Foucault
Economic Sociology

301.092 / LAR