- Title
- Bourdieu and affect: towards the theory of affective affinities
- Creator
- Threadgold, Steven
- Relation
- https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/bourdieu-and-affect
- Publisher
- Bristol University Press
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- The data in this book are from my own research, observations and life experiences, and from many other researchers’ work. I use novels, media, news stories, pop culture and other sources to illustrate various points. I also make use of sociological vignettes that are somewhat hypothetical, somewhat biographical and somewhat based on research data, which are drawn from being immersed in the literature and research on those things and need to be given some poetic licence. You may also notice that I sometimes use the word ‘we’ when I am generalizing about the theories and concepts in the book. I understand that the use of ‘we’ should always be treated critically, because it is often used to create a false inclusivity, and that invocations of ‘we’ are an inevitable exercise in omission, whether intentional or not. Therefore, I use ‘we’ here as a deliberate form of inclusivity, but one that also contains an implicit reminder to denote that social scientists, the intended readership of this book, are largely practicing within the same social forces as our research objects. The ‘we’ is a ploy to encourage social scientists to think more reflexively about our own place in the world and the way in which we practice within it: that is, we are often reflexively complicit in the very things we critique. I also use examples from academia for the same purpose. While this book may act as an idiosyncratic introduction to Bourdieu, the imagined reader has been introduced to Bourdieu’s concepts and, broadly, to affect theories. It does not try to define those concepts in depth, or to go over and rehash debates about the various concepts, although there is a definitional table for how I am using them at the end of the Introduction. There are many works that cover that material in depth and, as this is a short book, it is impossible to give that work the attention it deserves here. The ideas for this book were developed in the research monograph Youth, Class and Everyday Struggles, in which there is a section in Chapter Three where I begin to bring Bourdieu and affect together. The second chapter in that book thoroughly outlines Bourdieu’s sociology and defines his concepts in depth, foregrounding the importance of illusio and social gravity. This can serve as in introduction to Bourdieu’s work, but there are many others.
- Subject
- observations; life experiences; inclusivity; socialogical vignettes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444658
- Identifier
- uon:42370
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781529206616
- Language
- eng
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