In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the market into the field of artistic and intellectual production.
The first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics, this study seeks to assess the validity of his claims as to the distinctiveness and superiority of his own field theory as a tool of political analysis.
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defen...
This study of the work of the influential French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu places his work firmly in the context of developments both in the French post-war intellectual field an din post-war French society as a whole. Set against the background of rapid change and upheaval that has characterised post-war French society, culture and politics, Bourdieu's work can be seen as offering a peculiarly perceptive analysis of France's problematic transition to an era of late capitalism. Proceeding thematically, this study traces the development of Bourdieu's thought, elucidating...
This study of the work of the influential French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu places his work firmly in the context of developments ...
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed. This study seeks to assess the validity of his claims as to the distinctiveness and superiority of his own field theory as a tool of political analysis.
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defendin...
Jeremy Lane's "Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism" is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-war era France. Lane's book is the first to examine the responses of diasporic French Africans and Antilleans to the music they first heard in Paris in the interwar years, analyzing the place of jazz within the emerging negritude and creolite movements. "Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism" is also the first study of the sometimes symbiotic, sometimes antagonistic relationship between these intellectuals of color and contemporary white jazz...
Jeremy Lane's "Jazz and Machine-Age Imperialism" is a bold challenge to the existing homogenous picture of the reception of American jazz in world-...