Bourdieu and Social Space
Subtitle: Mobilities, Trajectories, Emplacements
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated; Berghahn Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781789203530
Subjects: Space (architecture); Social mobility
Description: "French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu's relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu's ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu's writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility"--