Altered States of Academia

Tag: bourdieu

  • Thinking with Bourdieu: Illusio

    Claire Birkenshaw “If you are the dealer, I’m out of the game.” (Leonard Cohen, 2016) Happy New Year! Set any New Year resolutions? I have. At the heart of my New Year resolutions for 2024 is the improvement of my ‘cultural capital’ portfolio in terms of “volume” and “composition” (Threadgold, 2018, p.45). I am motivated…

  • Thinking with Bourdieu: Doxa

    Claire Birkenshaw “In every cry of every Man,In every Infants cry of fear,In every voice: in every ban,The mind-forg’d manacles I hear” (William Blake, 1794).   Sociology’s purpose, Bourdieu (2013, p.10) argued, is to “uncover the social unconscious” in order to examine and explain “the social relations of domination”, which “deny others the full expression…