Acting Politics: A Critical Sociology of the Political Field

ISBN-13: 9780367583484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 202 str.

Alfredo Joignant

Opis

A sociological reading of the contemporary political field, its agents and struggles, as well as the forms that the field itself can take, this book engages with Bourdieu’s theory of fields, analysing the functioning of the political field.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

1. The Political Field: Formation, Objectivation and Autonomy

2. Value and Capital

3. The Politics of the Habitus

4. The Institutional Organisation of the Field

5. Political Inequality and Domination of the Field

6. The Power of Ideas

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alfredo Joignant is Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, and former president of the Chilean Political Science Association. Principal Researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies, he is the co-editor of The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet.