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Albright, James, Deborah Hartman, and Jacqueline Widin, eds. Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5385-6.

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Bourdieu's theory of social fields: Concepts and applications. New York, NY: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Witte, Daniel. Auf den Spuren der Klassiker: Pierre Bourdieus Feldtheorie und die Gründerväter der Soziologie. Konstanz: UVK, 2014.

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Widin, Jacqueline, James Albright, and Deborah Hartman. Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

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Widin, Jacqueline, James Albright, and Deborah Hartman. Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

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Steinmetz, George. Bourdieusian Field Theory and the Reorientation of Historical Sociology. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.28.

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Chapter abstract This chapter explores some of the ways Bourdieusian theory is reinvigorating historical sociology. The first section reconstructs Bourdieu’s increasingly serious engagement over the course of his career with historians and historical material. It argues that Bourdieu generated and encouraged among his students a unique approach to historical sociology. The second section argues that the historical turn in Bourdieu’s work is firmly grounded in the fundamentally historicity of his two key theoretical concepts, habitus and field. The third section sketches an agenda for future work in historical sociology based on Bourdieu’s mature theory. The final section surveys recent social research using Bourdieusian field theory, arguing that this constitutes an unacknowledged and growing tendency within historical sociology.
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Levi Martin, John. Bourdieu’s Unlikely Contribution to the Human Sciences. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.19.

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Chapter abstract The author of this chapter proposes that we consider Bourdieu’s work neither on its own terms, nor in the terms of the postwar French academic field, but in terms of the general problems that it solved. When we do so, we find that Bourdieu developed lines of thinking that had stalled in Germany and the United States. The former was the field theoretic tradition associated with Gestalt psychology and empirical phenomenology; the second was the habit theoretic tradition associated increasingly with pragmatism. Each had stalled because each seemed, in a way, too successful—everything turned into habit for pragmatist social psychology; field theory also put everything indiscriminately in the field of experience. By focusing on the reciprocal relations of habitus and field, Bourdieu developed these insights in ways that allowed for empirical exploration, and that cut against the French rationalist vocabulary that he inherited.
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Jentges, Erik. Leadership Capital. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198783848.003.0014.

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The Leadership Capital Index utilizes the conceptual terminology of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory. This chapter presents the groundwork for the LCI as it clarifies Bourdieu’s key concepts and traces the evolution from political capital to leadership capital. With an overview of Bourdieu’s three core concepts of economic, cultural, and social capital, plus the more elusive symbolic capital, the chapter assists with an appreciation of the analytical potential of the concept of political capital. The notion of leadership capital integrates many (but not all) aspects of Bourdieu’s field-specific notion of political capital and the LCI succeeds in translating his complex conceptualization into a manageable set of ten indicators. The chapter explains how together Bourdieu’s political sociology and the approach suggested through the LCI create numerous synergies and are promising and useful endeavors in the analysis of political leadership.
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Lebaron, Frédéric, and Brigitte Le Roux. Bourdieu and Geometric Data Analysis. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.22.

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Chapter abstract The extent to which the concepts of field and social space are linked to a concrete mode of empirical research—and in particular to a set of original statistical tools—has seldom been acknowledged. This chapter aims to re-establish the close link between the field concept and geometric data analysis (GDA), Bourdieu’s preferred technique for mapping the “social distances” between individuals. The elective affinity between the two is based on a relation of tight interdependence: on the one hand, the emergent practice of GDA sustains and strengthens the “implicit philosophy” of the theory of fields; on the other hand, the method’s widespread use by Bourdieu and his collaborators has facilitated GDA’s international reception in the social sciences. The chapter concludes by discussing the empirical research program that results from wedding a sociology of fields with the systematic use of GDA.
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Kauppi, Nikko. Transnational Social Fields. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.8.

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This chapter excavates Bourdieu’s theoretical insights concerning political sociology to develop a theory of transnational structuration processes. The early Bourdieu implicitly imagined the state as a nationally bounded actor. Only later in his career did he begin to grapple with issues such as globalization, transnationalism, and neoliberalism; and it is this later germ of ideas that this chapter develops. Transnational social fields, this chapter argues, are not reducible to institutional or organizational structures. They require a more holistic analysis of institutions and their underpinnings. To provide an example of how Bourdieu’s political sociology can be extended to transnational spaces, this chapter considers the case of the European Parliament.
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Hilgers, Mathieu. Bourdieu's Theory of Social Fields. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315772493.

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Widin, Jacqueline, James Albright, and Deborah Hartman. Bourdieu's Field Theory and the Social Sciences. Palgrave MacMillan, 2017.

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Theiner, Georg, and Nikolaus Fogle. The “Ontological Complicity” of Habitus and Field. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801764.003.0012.

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This chapter approaches the work of the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, from the point of view of embodied, extended, and distributed cognition. The concepts that form Bourdieu’s central dyad, habitus and field, are remarkably consonant with externalist views. Habitus is a form of knowledge that is not only embodied but fundamentally environment-dependent, and field is a distributed network of cognitively active positions that serves not only as a repository of social knowledge, but also as an external template for individual schemes of perception and action. The aim of this chapter’s comparative analysis is not to merely show that Bourdieu’s concepts are compatible with cognitive and epistemological externalism. They further demonstrate that the resources of Bourdieu’s theoretical framework can prove particularly useful for developing externalist accounts of culture and society—two areas that are significantly underexplored within mainstream debates in analytic philosophy.
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Buck, Nikolas, ed. Geschichte schreiben. Ergon – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956508301.

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How do constructions of literary periods develop and what is their function? Why do some terms (as romanticism) prevail over the long term, while others disappear from the discourse at an early stage? The present work addresses these questions regarding the procedural character of ‘epochalization’, which tend to be neglected during the last decades. With the help of Bourdieu’s field theory, concepts of performativity and the ‘invisible hand’, it explores the complex mechanisms that are effective in the genesis and consolidation of contemporary claims of cultural shift. These claims result from the interpretation and evaluation of current cultural phenomena.
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Hallett, Tim, and Matthew Gougherty. Bourdieu and Organizations. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.12.

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This chapter examines the relationship between Bourdieu’s sociology and organizational research, some of the ways he has been influential, how his ideas have been used, and new opportunities to push his research. In helping to spark the cultural turn in sociology, Bourdieu indirectly influenced the new institutionalist approach within organizational sociology. Although organizations were rarely the primary focus of his own work, we argue that there are traces of an organizational sociology in some of his canonical books. Much like his other work, this implicit approach is centered on the field-capital-habitus triumvirate. However, organizational scholars influenced by Bourdieu tend to focus on and modify the concepts of field and capital. Given recent calls to apply Bourdieu’s full conceptual framework to the study of organizations, we examine the promise and the potential pitfalls of incorporating Bourdieu’s concepts into the scholarship on the micro-foundations of institutions, especially as it relates to social interaction.
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McLevey, John, Allyson Stokes, and Amelia Howard. Bourdieu’s Uneven Influence on Anglophone Canadian Sociology. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.4.

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Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential and widely cited figures in anglophone Canadian sociology. Since the first decade of the twenty-first century, in particular, his theories have guided research in areas such as the sociology of culture, education, social theory, social networks, and social capital. This chapter presents a content analysis of journal articles to better understand Bourdieu’s influence on anglophone Canadian sociology. Many citations to Bourdieu are ritualistic and occasionally are characterized by misreadings. Furthermore, interpretations and applications of Bourdieu’s ideas have been limited by a methodological division of labor. Quantitative research has primarily been concerned with cultural and social capital, with qualitative and historical research placing more emphasis on habitus and fields. The authors suggest several ways to expand the engagement with Bourdieu’s work, and to move beyond the current methodological division of labor.
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Rey, Terry. Pierre Bourdieu and the Study of Religion. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.13.

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Although Pierre Bourdieu ranks among the most influential social theorists of all time, scholars of religion have generally been reluctant to employ his work, surely in part because he was an avowed materialist who harbored some measure of disdain for religion and spirituality, which he nonetheless thought to be important “social facts.” Over the last 20 years or so, however, this has been changing, with an increasing number of scholars fruitfully mining Bourdieu’s extraordinary oeuvre to orient their studies of religion, arguably one of the most important of all social forces. This chapter provides a summary of Bourdieu’s own theorization of religion, followed by a review of seven recent books that expertly engage Bourdieu in the study of various forms of religion, toward demonstrating Bourdieu’s utility and limitations for religious studies and related fields.
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Dean, Benson Rodney, and Neveu Erik 1952-, eds. Bourdieu and the journalistic field. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.

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Dietch, Linda A. The Social Worlds of Biblical Narrative. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.45.

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This chapter briefly reviews the rise of social-scientific criticism—a subfield of biblical criticism that uses social-scientific theory to ascertain how social forces, institutions, and practices impacted the origin and development of biblical religions and texts and the peoples and communities behind both—and demonstrates the method’s usefulness through application to Judges 3:12–30. Since biblical narratives provide partial and fragmentary glimpses into ancient lives, this essay recommends the careful use of the social sciences to extrapolate encoded social values, systems, and relations. Émile Durkheim’s conceptions of sacred and profane and the function of religious ritual highlight the Ehud narrative’s cultic interests, which underscore the interdependence between deity and collective. Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptions of social field, habitus, and doxa permit one to hypothesize the effect of field and habitus on the text’s ancient producers and distinguish between their explicit views and doxic assumptions.
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Sallaz, Jeffrey J. Is a Bourdieusian Ethnography Possible? Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.21.

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Chapter abstract This chapter argues that Pierre Bourdieu’s research program is less compatible with ethnography than it first appears. Bourdieu was critical of structuralism, that perspective on the social world that prioritizes general patterns over lived experience, whereas ethnography claims as its raison d’être the elucidation of lived experience. A close reading of Bourdieu’s entire body of writings, however, reveals multiple reservations about the ethnographic method. At various points Bourdieu argues that ethnography is partial knowledge, impotent knowledge, and dangerous knowledge. This chapter elaborates each of these critiques, and gives ethnography a chance to respond. Ultimately, it concludes that it is possible to do ethnography from within the Bourdieusian research program. But ethnographers must take care to contextualize their field data in its extra-local context; they should deploy systematic research designs; and they must exercise reflexivity as to how one’s position as a scholar shapes one’s experience of others’ social worlds.
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Santoro, Marco, Andrea Gallelli, and Barbara Grüning. Bourdieu’s International Circulation. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.2.

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An influential figure in the French intellectual field since the 1960s, Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) is increasingly influential also—and probably mainly—on a global scale. In fact, the circulation of Bourdieu’s ideas and concepts outside of France greatly exceeds their transatlantic importation, both temporally and spatially. His works circulated in different parts of “old Europe” well before their renown in the United States, especially in countries geographically, historically, and culturally close to France, including Spain, Germany, and Italy. The patterns of transfer in these countries—each with its own intellectual tradition and academic organization—have been varied, both temporally and in intellectual content, following paths that are unpredictable and often surprising in many respects, with consequences in terms of status and identity of the transferred ideas equally diversified and not immediately understandable.
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Threadgold, Steven. Bourdieu and Affect. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529206616.001.0001.

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A Bourdieusian contribution to studies of affect provides a more comprehensive understanding of the everyday moments that make, transform and remake the social contours of inequality, and how those relations are contested and resisted. By teasing out the affective elements already implicit in concepts like habitus, illusio, cultural capital, field and symbolic violence, this book develops a theory of affective affinities to consider how emotions and feelings are central to how class is affectively delineated along with material and symbolic relations. This includes theorising habitus as one’s history rolled up into an affective ball of immanent dispositions, an assemblage of embodied affective charges. Sketching fields as having their own affective atmospheres and structures of feeling, while considering everyday settings that the concept of field cannot capture. Drawing upon illusio, social gravity and social magic to unpack how the embodied nature of the forms of capital mean they operate in affective economies mediating transmissions of affective violence. The book concludes by critically engaging with aspects of social change due to the rise of reflexivity, irony and cynicism and proposing the figure of the accumulated being to challenge the dominance of homo economicus.
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Browitt, Jeff. Practicing Theory: Pierre Bourdieu And The Field Of Cultural Production. University of Delaware Press, 2005.

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Jeff, Browitt, and Nelson Brian 1946-, eds. Practising theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the field of cultural production. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

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Practising theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the field of cultural production. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2005.

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Atkinson, Will. Bourdieu and Schutz. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.17.

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Chapter abstract This chapter considers the relationship between the sociologies of Pierre Bourdieu and Alfred Schutz. It begins by making plain the shared rootedness of many of their ideas in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and tracing the different directions in which they took that influence, given the dissimilar states of the intellectual fields they were positioned in. It then goes on to compare the two thinkers on philosophical anthropology and epistemology, making the case that Bourdieu’s relational worldview fills in significant gaps in Schutz’s account. However, the author subsequently argues that Schutz’s vocabulary can, in turn, help plug holes in Bourdieu’s perspective too, pushing the latter toward becoming a “relational phenomenology.” These holes are, first, the sketchy depiction of conscious activity associated with the concept of habitus and, second, the neglect of how individual lifeworlds are structured by multiple fields.
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Hjekllbrekke, Johs, and Annick Prieur. On the Reception of Bourdieu’s Sociology in the World’s Most Equal Societies. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.3.

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This chapter discusses the reception of Bourdieu in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, which are three of the richest, but also most egalitarian, societies in the world, with strong welfare state traditions. The sympathy toward Bourdieu’s thinking in Scandinavia may be linked to a resonance for his critique of domination and of neoliberalism; the strong resistance his thinking also has encountered stems from a denial of its relevance for Scandinavia. Finding identical oppositions in Scandinavia from those found in France would imply a pre-construction of the kind that Bourdieu relentlessly warned against; nevertheless, it may be argued that if his models are applicable in Scandinavia, which is so different from France, they should be applicable everywhere. The chapter presents works from the three fields where the use of Bourdieu’s models has been most important in Scandinavia: education, cultural consumption, and power and the elites.
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Cohen, Antonin. Pierre Bourdieu and International Relations. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.9.

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Over time, Pierre Bourdieu became an emergent reference in international relations—quite paradoxically, given that Bourdieu himself did not pay much attention to international relations as such. This chapter exhaustively reviews the works of Bourdieu in search of the international, both as a dimension of social capital and as a social space across societies. It then retraces how pioneering scholars used the theory and concepts of Bourdieu to develop their analysis of transnational processes. It also assesses the more recent blossoming of scholarship using Bourdieu in international relations, sometimes at the risk of inconsistency with the theory of Bourdieu. It finally suggests a coherent reconstruction of a theory of transnational fields based on Bourdieu for further research. Throughout the chapter, the notion of field serves as a golden thread to go back to its genealogy, to be found, surprisingly, in international relations.
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Charle, Christophe. The Transdisciplinary Contribution of Pierre Bourdieu to the Study of the Academic Field and Intellectuals. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.14.

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Bourdieu’s contribution to the study of the academic field and intellectuals rests on a series of novel concepts and methodological rules. This chapter focuses on three. The first is Bourdieu’s use of history and the historical method, which he combined with sociology to produce a method for establishing critical distance between researcher and empirical object. The second is Bourdieu’s penchant for international comparisons. Contrary to the objections of critics, his studies drew frequent parallels between the intellectuals at the heart of his studies and their foreign counterparts—including Prussian intellectuals of the eighteenth century; German academics during the Weimar period; and contemporary Belgian, American, and German intellectuals. The third feature is Bourdieu’s insistence on an organic link between the study of the intellectual field and the study of the field of power. This link held the key, in his view, to the political and social commitments accompanying the intellectual role.
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Pop, Liliana. Bourdieu in the Post-Communist World. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.6.

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The collapse of the communist regimes in the former Soviet bloc and the subsequent economic, political, social, and cultural transformations opened up new challenges for social science research. Working with the methodological and conceptual tools of Pierre Bourdieu, including habitus, field, capital, symbolic power, hysteresis, and the logic of honor, among others, scholars have defined and addressed four clusters of important research questions: the possibility of systemic change and the emergence of “capitalism without capitalists”; mechanisms for legitimacy and stability, new configurations of stratification and lifestyles; marketing selves, the informal economy, and nationalism; and state-level strategies for redefining positions in the international political field. This chapter shows that, although much remains to be done across these areas, works that use Bourdieu’s insights to analyze post-communist regimes have provided more nuanced accounts and fuller explanations than those available in mainstream literatures, making up in salience what they lack in number.
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Chong, Wu-Ling. Chinese Indonesians in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455997.001.0001.

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This book examines the complex situation of ethnic Chinese Indonesians in post-Suharto Indonesia, focusing on Chinese in two of the largest Indonesian cities, Medan and Surabaya. The fall of Suharto in May 1998 led to the opening up of a democratic and liberal space to include a diversity of political actors and ideals in the political process. However, due to the absence of an effective, genuinely reformist party or political coalition, predatory politico-business interests nurtured under the New Order managed to capture the new political and economic regimes. As a result, corruption and internal mismanagement continue to plague the bureaucracy in the country. The indigenous Indonesian population generally still perceives the Chinese minority as an alien minority who are wealthy, selfish, insular and opportunistic; this is partially due to the role some Chinese have played in perpetuating corrupt business practices. As targets of extortion and corruption by bureaucratic officials and youth/crime organisations, the Chinese are neither merely passive bystanders of the democratisation process in Indonesia nor powerless victims of corrupt practices. By focusing on the important interconnected aspects of the role Chinese play in post-Suharto Indonesia, via business, politics and civil society, this book argues, through a combination of Anthony Giddens’s structure-agency theory as well as Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and field, that although the Chinese are constrained by various conditions, they also have played an active role in shaping these conditions.
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Laird, Donna J. Political Strategy in the Narrative of Ezra–Nehemiah. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.23.

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This chapter surveys the changing narrative voices and diverse literary materials contained in Ezra and Nehemiah. It details how these various components coalesce into a sharply focused argument to define the membership and religious practices of the post-exilic community. To illustrate this in detail, an intertextual study compares the use of holy war motifs (anxiety about chaos, a warring patron deity, herem, concern for purity, and covenant loyalty) in the Nehemiah memoir with their use in the book of Joshua. Then, using Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological work on symbolic language and the social field, Nehemiah’s nuanced usage of holy war is evaluated with respect to the author’s cultural capital and social and political context. The findings suggest that Nehemiah’s rhetorical strategies can be used to map the state of power relations and the social and cultural context of the author.
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Bourdieu, Pierre. The Scientific Method and the Social Hierarchy of Objects. Edited by Thomas Medvetz and Jeffrey J. Sallaz. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199357192.013.10.

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In this short piece, which exemplifies his long-standing commitment to epistemic reflexivity, Bourdieu pinpoints one of the primary means of censorship in scientific disciplines: namely, the “social hierarchy of objects” dictating that certain objects be considered worthy of investigation (such that even redundant and scientifically insignificant accounts of these may yield “material and symbolic profits” for the researcher), while others are taken as trivial, vulgar, or otherwise unworthy. Reflecting on the “silence that enshrouds” the latter, Bourdieu sketches the broad outlines for a study of the division of scientific objects into categories like “noble or vulgar, serious or futile, interesting or trivial.” Underpinning this discussion is his unwavering commitment to the goal of scientific autonomy, which demands that scientists choose their objects based on scientific considerations alone, without regard for commercial, political, or cultural pressures, disciplinary fads and fashions, professional considerations, or other solicitations originating outside the scientific field.
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Bickford, Tyler. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654146.003.0007.

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The conclusion advocates for understanding music in terms of interpersonal relationships as much or more than as repertoires of texts with their own cultural meanings. Music should be considered in terms of Bourdieu’s concept of “social capital” in addition to “cultural capital” as it is normally conceived. Children’s in-school media use does not involve the intrusion of foreign consumer culture into education, but rather historically and culturally grounded traditions of peer-cultural solidarity provide a context into which entertainment media practices fit naturally. A seeming opposition between education and consumer culture is in fact a constitutive dialectic, which helps explain the politicization of children’s peer cultural practices in school. Consumer culture represents the extension of dynamics from school into the wider public sphere. The invasion of these practices into schools is only a natural return to original fields of conflict between children and adults.
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Fulcher, Jane F. Renegotiating French Identity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190681500.001.0001.

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In light of the recent historiography of Vichy, which stresses its initial political concession, competing factions, and then escalating collaboration with the occupant, this book proposes new questions concerning the shifting nature of French cultural as well as political identity. As the occupation advanced, how did those responsible for cultural policies attempt to adapt their conceptions of French values to accord with the agenda of collaboration in all professional fields? How was French cultural identity and its relation to German culture gradually reconceived by both the occupant and by Vichy as the former played an increasingly interventionist role in music, a symbolic stake in the national self-image of both regimes? Employing the theoretical insights of Gramsci and Bourdieu into hegemony and how it is achieved and combated, this book examines the ways in which musical works were fostered or appropriated and transmitted—physically inscribed, framed, and presented during different phases of the regime as specific groups assumed power. As this study concomitantly demonstrates, we find not only accommodation but also resistance among those artists involved with Vichy’s institutions, and especially in music, where new cultural practices, strategies, and modes of communication emerged as musicians confronted the increasing loss of autonomy in their field. They were forced to assume a position along the spectrum from compliance to resistance on the basis of their perceptions, experience, and subjectivity. Some sought to maintain integrity and avoid appropriation while remaining visible, continuing subtly to innovate and incorporate alternative cultural representations proposed by the Resistance.
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Lemons, J. Derrick. The “Us-Them” Dilemma. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677565.003.0004.

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Globalization continues to impact the demands of teaching and learning. Instructors of religion are asked to prepare students for a globalized world. Students have newly formed questions about the religious other because of their visits abroad or experiences with neighbors who have moved from other countries. The focus of this chapter is to call social scientists and comparative theologians to share their fields and develop a reflexive comparative theological method to inform their research and instruction. Specifically, the reflexivity of Pierre Bourdieu and the comparative theological stance of Francis Clooney are combined to draw on the signature contributions of each scholar. I conclude with an overview of four sections of my course Introduction to Religious Thought, in which I develop a reflexive comparative theological movement throughout the course to assist students in understanding their home religion and the religious other.
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