Acting Politics

NOTE EDITORE

Following Bourdieu, this book seeks ‘to think about politics without thinking politically’, advancing the view that politics as conventionally understood does not take place in a social vacuum, but in the context of a certain topography of society that cannot be reduced to formal spaces (such as a parliament). Engaging with Bourdieu’s theory of fields and focusing specifically on the notion of the ‘political field’, the author analyses from a sociological perspective the functioning of the political field, seeing it not simply as a formal space, but as encompassing a sphere that is increasingly autonomous from others and driven by reasons and motives beyond those conventionally recognised as political. Illustrated with cases from the real political life of different countries, Acting Politics examines the nature of the practices of the agents who inhabit the political field, building a picture of a type of competitive political activity that is fundamentally social and symbolic. A sociological reading of the agents, struggles and forms of the contemporary political field, this book thinks with and against Bourdieu in a broad dialogue with different sociological currents and debates in other disciplines. As such, it will appeal to scholars of politics and sociology with interests in social and political theory and political sociology.

SOMMARIO

PrefaceIntroduction1. The Political Field: Formation, Objectivation and Autonomy2. Value and Capital3. The Politics of the Habitus4. The Institutional Organisation of the Field5. Political Inequality and Domination of the Field6. The Power of IdeasConclusionBibliographyIndex

AUTORE

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.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780367583484
• Dimensioni: 9.25 x 6.25 in Ø 1.00 lb
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 202
• Pagine Romane: x