Reading Pierre Bourdieu In A Dual Context

About Author :
Roland Kardinois is Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and member of the Centre d'etudes de I'Inde wt de I" Asie Du Sud, Paris. His research interest include the sociology of knowledge on Indian Society during the colonial period. Meenakshi Thapan is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Prior to this she was Professor at the Department of Education, University of Delhi.
Contents :
Introduction 1. The Uses of Bourdien's Social Theory: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 2. The Crises of Imperial Societies 3. Thinking the State with Bourdien and Faucault 4. Bourdien's Theory of the Symbolic: Tradition and Innovations 5. The Field of Indian Knowledge in France in the 1930s as Reality and as Fiction 6. Literature and Politics: the French Literary Field during the German Occupation 7. Symbolic Violence, Masculine Domination and Politicization of Gender: the Case of the Vichy Regime (France 1940-1944) 8. Habitus, Performance and Women's Experience: Understanding Embodiment and Identity in Everyday Life 9. Pierre Bourdien and Anthropology: From Kinship to Gift 10. Documents and Testinony: Voilence, Witnessing and Subjectiveity in the Bombay Riots Contributors Index