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Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions—specific components of habitus—mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend inhibits the habitus. Far from placing the biological over the social, my discussion illustrates how the two are inseparable, a unity underlined by the term bio-habitus. I demonstrate how this concept intervenes in Bourdieusian debates over social reproduction and how the biological inhibition of habitus compares to work on hysteresis. I end by discussing resonances with and implications for disability studies.

This paper addresses the gap in the literature concerning factors inhibiting the provision of continuing professional development (CPD) for relationships and sex education in English schools. Using Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, it examines resistance to relationships and sex education CPD at a personal and institutional level in a south coast English school. Findings suggest that commonly used CPD approaches based on a deficit model and pedagogies of exposure are ineffective in bringing about change in strongly cisheteronormative secondary school settings. Using data from focus groups, a case study is used to explore this phenomenon and alternatives to conventional CPD approaches. Findings reveal that resistance to relationships and sex education CPD manifests in personal resistance (teacher’s habitus conflicting with CPD) and professional resistance (misalignment of training’s capital value with teacher’s accrued capital). Both forms of resistance negatively impact CPD effectiveness. A Culture of Conversation approach is proposed to create reflexive spaces that disrupt cisheteronormative institutional doxa and challenge individual resistance. While limited to a single field site, the research points to potential in developing a culture of conversation as appropriate, ethical and more effective relationships and sex education CPD strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how children experience parental influence on their leisure time, or the time that they spend outside of schooling, including both organised leisure and casual leisure activities. Twenty-one focus groups were conducted with children (n = 147) aged 10–12, derived from seven primary schools in Ireland. Children discussed their hobbies, free time pursuits, sporting activities and digital media use, and elaborated on their parents’ interventions in this regard. Utilising a childhood studies approach within a Bourdieusian framework, findings indicate the salience of Irish culture and in particular gender as differentiating factors in terms of parental influence on children’s leisure choices. The frequency and type of leisure activity, the cultivation of Gaelic games and the gendered roles of mothers and fathers were key features of parental influence on organised leisure practices. Casual leisure such as outdoor play and hanging around involved less parental influence, apart from digital leisure which was heavily mediated by parents, and in particular mothers. Through a focus on social reproduction, this research demonstrates the social significance of childhood leisure practices for children themselves, their parents and in turn, wider society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores spectator racism across three high-profile professional men's football codes in Australia (Australian Football League, National Rugby League and the A-League). To pursue this goal, the study conducted an online survey from April 2021 to June 2021, securing 2047 responses. Our focus in this article centres on those participants who self-identified as White to gather their insights on racism as they witnessed and understood it being expressed in the context of attending a professional men's football code match in Australia. Applying Pierre Bourdieu's concept of habitus to theorise why some White spectators overtly express racist language and behaviour, our findings indicated the resilience of Whiteness as a source of power and domination, with many White participants reporting they had witnessed racial bigotry in recent years. Concurrently, many demonstrated anti-racist sensibilities, expressing frustration that change has been limited, if at all. Some participants suggested racism is an individual failing rather than being subject to institutions and community norms. From that perspective, racism is viewed as a personal choice rather than a failure of society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite Australian and New Zealand Universities pledging to address gender inequities, the patriarchal history of universities continues to impact the careers of women in academia. Under-representation of women in senior leadership and a culture of masculinity can lead to a lack of resources for feminist leadership and a devaluing of women's work. We investigate how women in academic leadership are playing the game differently, making strategic moves to navigate leadership in the neoliberal neopatriarchal academy. We explored the experiences of 22 women in academic leadership through online qualitative surveys and reflexive thematic analysis of the data, taking inspiration from Bourdieu's work on habitus and doxa. Although women leaders were able to successfully make strategic moves to advance their careers, these were shaped by parenting status, race, culture, and age. The women's leadership approaches were counter to the masculine doxa of the academic field, leading instead relationally. We do not suggest that there is a specific 'female' style of academic leadership, but that successful authentic leadership can be founded on a feminist ethics of care in contrast to neopatriarchy. Adoption of such approaches across the academy might unshackle academics across genders from their positioning in academic leadership hierarchies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How do foreign policies and transnational projects become resistant to critique? This article seeks to better understand the legitimation of policies by studying the work involved in justifying public funding of migration and development initiatives. Government expenditures on migration and development have been increasing in recent years, despite widely shared concerns regarding the merits of such initiatives. In this article, we focus our attention on the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF). The EUTF has been assessed by EU agencies as a successful intervention, while never hiding its inability to achieve demonstrable progress toward its goals of addressing the "root causes" of the 2015–2016 migration "crisis" in the Mediterranean. We argue that this fund was legitimized as a valuable policy intervention through the efforts of European officials and Monitoring and Evaluation experts to, borrowing from Bourdieu, "convert capital": translate one form of power resource into another form. Based on document analysis and 25 key informant interviews, we trace how EUTF officials successfully converted capital by, first, mobilizing political resources to generate economic capital for migration-related projects in Africa; and second, transforming some of this economic capital into more lasting symbolic capital which justifies long-term migration and development initiatives. In short, money becomes legitimacy. We argue that this "conversion work" helps us to better understand the continued growth and upholding of migration and development financing which consists not only of raw funds but also involves continuous efforts to legitimize these expenditures as inherently valuable policy interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is widely argued that the arts have a range of cultural, economic, and educational benefits. However, under state austerity arts curricula are devalued in favour of industry skills. To address this gap in arts education, a new type of student focussed informal arts engagement program has emerged. This article draws on a qualitative study of disadvantaged Australian secondary students' experience of an arts engagement program and explores their experiences through Bourdieusian concepts. We observe how students' homologous position allowed an immediate appreciation of the arts and note how their habitus frame the arts as 'work' and as a technical accomplishment. An illusio in the arts as career emerged from these understandings. We suggest informal arts programs act as a collective gift within a weak cycle of reciprocity, but without expanded in-school opportunities fall short in offering students new ways of understanding the place and value of the arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As conventional class categories hide too much pertinent information, there is a growing body of work on lifestyles and consumption patterns of more detailed occupational groups that seeks to distinguish the underlying social structures. While research in Bourdieusian class analysis focuses on class practices, limited attention is paid to agents' strategic interests. Using French household expenditure data, this article explores the structures of consumption, instrumental for professional advancement, within the 'service class'. The article provides conclusive evidence of maintained distinctions between the identities of business, technical and educational professionals through the expenditure-based structures of consumption. The study illustrates the capacity of Bourdieu's capital composition principle to reveal the social structures. The article argues that the instrumental, capital-signalling role of strategic investments in the markers of distinction resonates with the principles of Bourdieu's logic, delineating not only the symbolic but also the social space, with implications for understanding inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research indicates an uneasy fit between curriculum frameworks and practice. In this paper, we explore the more subtle practices of context, providing insights into why teachers plan the way they do. Specifically, we examine the Australian early childhood education and care curriculum framework and local practices by analysing teacher planning templates and interviews. Using Bourdieusian tools of field and habitus, we investigate how early childhood teachers plan their programs by selectively adapting curriculum frameworks. Our case study approach uncovers a range of influences on teacher planning and how local practices reflect broader national agendas for young children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the Scandinavian states' staffing of middle and senior‐ranking positions within the United Nations (UN)‐system, in comparison to other members of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It is true that the Scandinavian states are overrepresented per the size of their population in both staffing categories; however, when it comes to a comparison of financial contributions to the UN regular budget, the three states are underrepresented compared to the rest of the OECD in staffing funded by that mechanism. Yet, the strong reputation of the Scandinavian states and their practitioners has still enabled them to disproportionately staff senior UN positions. To explain this, this paper utilises Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of capital, field, and habitus to explain how the three states' reputation within the UN‐system gives them an advantage in staffing senior positions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "Social Biographies of the Ancient World." It presents the fundamental elements of Bourdieu's sociological field theory before adapting them to apply to the study of ancient, premodern societies. By reverse-engineering the theory's developmental process through the work of Bourdieu, the article underscores the process by which he came to develop his theory. His original process is then able to be adapted for use in ancient societies whose available sources limit ethnographic or (traditional) archival approaches. What results is a distillation of field theory as applicable for the study of the Ancient Near East and other ancient societies. "Ancient Near Eastern field theory" presents an avenue for further analysis of the social dynamics of the ancient world that still preserves the fundamental elements of Bourdieu's theory. What results is a method, not a model, for analysis that the following three case studies utilize in various ways based on the questions of the researchers and the sources materials at hand. Thus, this adaptation of field theory is useful for additional research both into the case studies presented in this issue and as a method to address other questions of socio-historical significance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "Social Biographies of the Ancient World." It serves as response paper whose purpose is to identify a core question underlying the three case studies in this special issue: does Bourdieu's field theory help us to understand how people made decisions in the ancient world, given that its predictive capabilities will necessarily be limited by the information we have? To explore this question, the idea of "using theory" as a method is engaged, comparing premodern applications of Bourdieu's core concepts to the limits of the scientific "theory of evolution." A brief assessment of the strengths of the case studies in this special issue is followed by an articulation of several resulting take-aways: (i) the value of the concepts of field, capital, and habitus in focusing on our data and its limits, rather than academic ideologies; (ii) the importance of articulating each scholarly assumption explicitly as we apply these concepts; (iii) the recognition that we can use Bourdieu to reveal new interpretive possibilities but not to fill in missing data; and (iv) the productive assumption that each text from the ancient world was the result of an actor(s) leveraging their capital in order to negotiate their perceived optimal position within a field. Together these points illustrate the utility of this issue's systematic approach to the application of Bourdieu's field theory in the study of the ancient world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "Social Biographies of the Ancient World," forming a sociological response to the other articles and case studies. It argues that engaging in discussions of Pierre Bourdieu's field theory with historians of the Ancient Near East pushes us beyond the usual binaries that structure the social sciences. While working with and challenging binaries like 'Western' and 'non-Western' has become central for social scientists, the binary of the 'modern' and 'pre-modern' remains on the margins of theoretical debates in sociology. This contribution disentangles the common association of field theory with modernity. Turning the field approach towards the ancient Near East encourages us to ask questions about how far social theory exceptionalizes modernity, and whether theoretical constructs central to the social sciences actually reflect processes that predate modern history. This exercise invites scholars to consider whether the distinguishing feature of modernity is not the emergence of fields, as is commonly assumed, but rather the emergence of economic capital as primary. More broadly, a Bourdieusian analysis of the Ancient Near East encourages us to zoom out to a potential macro-historical field approach, and to reconsider field theory's relation to time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Ancient History, "Social Biographies of the Ancient World." It sketches out an outline of Ancient Near Eastern social structures by utilizing sociological concepts first developed by Pierre Bourdieu. It is our contention that the concepts of field, capital, habitus, and the interplay between theory and practice facilitate the analysis of social structures under first millennium BCE empires even with the limitations of extant evidence, that is, even without ethnographic observation or self-aware personal writings. Bourdieusian Field Theory as a model is flexible and amenable to elaboration with further topics beyond the three case studies represented in this issue. We chose to investigate herein a mortuary stele, a literary figure, and a personal archive as they are three common source types for the ancient worlds of western Asia. We hope this issue will encourage other scholars of the ancient world to join us in utilizing these approaches for social-/micro-history—beyond Marxist or Weberian approaches. Through analysis of an understudied mortuary stele of a relatively unknown woman (Ahatabu), a well-known, supposedly anti-imperialist literary figure (Jonathan), and the archive of an early businesswoman (Babatha), this study presents Bourdieusian approaches to sources with varying known contexts and lifeworlds—emphasizing its applicability for broad usage throughout Ancient Near Eastern history. Finally, we reflect on the ways we found Bourdieu useful for thinking about ancient evidence in the three case studies. After analyzing the similarities and differences in our approaches to and uses of his thought, we propose further ways Bourdieu might provide helpful new trajectories for the study of the Ancient Near East. In particular, we point to the debated issues of family and gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2019, IBON International and the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines UK (CHRP-UK) made preparations for some relatives of some of the victims of former Philippine President Duterte's war on drugs to travel to meet members of the European Parliament as well as diasporic and other publics in Europe and the UK. At the same time, the play Tao Po! – 'Is Anybody There?' – a dramatic monologue exploring different perspectives of those involved in Duterte's drug war including those of victims and perpetrators, was touring Europe. These affectively saturated actions and performances were accompanied by social media posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, among other platforms, using hashtags such as #Stopthekillingsph and #Warondrugsph. I juxtapose two very different interpretations of these actions and performances. On the one hand, I frame them as elements of a political strategy performed to solicit particular affective responses as a means of assembling a transnational public that could bring international political pressure to bear on the Duterte regime. On the other hand, I suggest that these actions were performed to cultivate a sense of belonging to a moral public. I conclude by arguing that the enactment of affects such as grief and loss – affects which are constitutive of the war on drugs – suggests a model of social and political change that works from the bottom-up, with affective experience as the primary catalyst. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The professionalisation of sports coaching is approached in different ways depending on the country. In Sweden, social welfare ideals and traditions of volunteering have allowed coaching to be less professionalised. The aim of this article is to explore the impact of the professionalisation of sports coaching from the athlete's perspective. Interviews with six top-level Swedish players in women's and men's team sports were analysed using Bourdieu's theory of social fields. We found that the players' experiences with coaching reflect the doxa, power relations and capitals of their specific fields. Professionalisation was found to have multi-facetted effects on players and their careers. The environments of semi-professionalised Swedish clubs appear to benefit youth and holistic player development, however limited resources encourage players to migrate. Top professionalised clubs boost player performance and career development but run the risk of commodification and abuse. In conclusion, sport organisations are advised to keep local practices and athletes' perspectives in mind when navigating the global push towards the professionalisation of sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A central question within social theorization relates to the rescaling of ‘power’ in a globalized world. This paper advances sociological debates on power by cross-pollinating Beck’s power game theory with Bourdieu’s field. Hence, it conceptualizes what we call a ‘power game field’. This captures the power competition that cuts across local, national and global fields and involves, likewise, local, national and transnational actors whose capital and social relations shape the field’s outcomes. Using a global sport mega-event as our empirical setting, we explore the struggles and compliances in the power game field. Specifically, in the context of how the standards imposed on Brazil by football’s governing body (FIFA) – framed nationally as ‘Padrão FIFA’ – were contested within a localized media setting (2007–2014). This is done through a frame analysis of readers’ letters and media articles, which reveals the importance of Beck’s ‘both-and’ logic and the notion of ‘communal capital’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article interrogates the 'mobility imperative' and its impact on precarious academics. Drawing on 40 biographic interviews with academics with experience of long-term precarity in Irish higher education, and using a Bourdieusian framework, we identify the specific conditions, uses and impacts of international mobility for these workers. This method offers a unique retrospective advantage for an analysis of the utility of international capital for a cohort of workers typically excluded from studies of international mobility. Among the specific obstacles we identify which are faced by precarious academics in the accumulation and conversion of international capital are the lack of or compromised initial social capital; the dubious value of international capital in Irish academia, especially when associated with precarity; and the difficulty for workers to construct acceptable career scripts when both precarity and mobility have led them off-script. We suggest that the ability to accumulate and convert usable forms of international capital while working abroad is in part predetermined by prior struggles in the national field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article critically discusses participation by people with disabilities in the arts, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. It is informed by a qualitative study with representatives of organisations working on arts and disability in 22 European countries. The article highlights that experiences of inequality at various levels, including within education systems, and medicalised understandings of what disability is, continue to hamper arts participation and development of cultural capital by people with disabilities. A Bourdieusian analysis unveils how organisations working on arts and disability consciously engage in 'high' arts practices as an expression of distinction and in a way that is designed to reframe what is culturally valued within their fields. It also demonstrates the continued relevance of Bourdieu's theorising of cultural capital and of arts practices as distinction for potentially marginalised groups. Furthermore, participants often linked arts participation involving high artistic standards to potential change in how societies understand and relate to disability, connecting cultural practices and political struggles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

International pre-service teachers (PSTs) can struggle to engage with Professional Experience (PE) communities in an Australian Early Childhood Education context. This qualitative case study examines three first-year Chinese international PSTs' PE in different early childhood settings in Australia. Framed by Bourdieu's analytical concepts, this paper explores Chinese PSTs' culturally shaped understanding of PE and mentoring expectations, showing how this dimension of their habitus is differentiated and differentiating. We argue that with a supportive learning community, the rich cultural and linguistic repertoire of international PSTs can add to capital and funds of knowledge of Australian Early Childhood Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The question of how the digital economy responds to ecological issues has gained salience in recent years. So far, though, social scientists have primarily taken interest in the ecological positionings of tech entrepreneurs. Little attention has been paid to the middle-class fraction of 'tech workers' who are responsible for programming, designing, and managing the digital technologies that reconfigure socio-material relations. Based on 52 interviews with data scientists and user experience designers, the article analyzes the ecological habitus of this new professional segment. Four central ecological schemas are identified: (1) managing limited resources, (2) critical techno-optimism, (3) academic concern, and (4) lifestyle struggles. Simultaneously, the article discusses how these four schemas relate to the different forms of capital held by tech workers. This mapping of the ecological habitus of tech workers shows how social relationships with nature are underpinned by class positions. The article thus pursues dual aims, contributing to research on green capitalism as well as to debates on how the middle class relates to climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the intertwined nature of digital and environmental dimensions within Bourdieu's concept of habitus to address contemporary global challenges. Controversial evidence exists regarding the environmental impact of digitalization, reflecting contrasting theoretical approaches at societal and individual levels. The paper examines how digital practices' environmental impact depends on usage types, with implications for lifestyles and values. It revises the concept of habitus to encapsulate the complex interaction between digital and environmental fields, facilitating users' awareness and behavioral responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Municipal bureaucrats in the United States—mostly on the social side of the state (e.g. public health, welfare, educators, housing, and sometimes urban planners) but not exclusively so (e.g. district attorney offices)—have shown growing willingness to engage in political battles within the bureaucracy, connect with social movements, and construct oppositional identities centred on social and racial justice. Critical urban theories of the state highlight important constraints that shape state strategies, functions, and policies but tell us little about the contradictions propelling some bureaucrats into political contests over power and legitimacy. Consequently, we turn to theorists who conceive of the bureaucratic state as a contradictory and relatively autonomous field where conflicts between dominated and dominant bureaucrats overlap and converge with conflicts between dominated and dominant class forces (Bourdieu, Gramsci, Hall, and Poulantzas). Their observations are used to formulate the three propositions that underpin our theoretical framework. These propositions draw attention to the structural, relational, and conjunctural processes involved in forming individual bureaucrats into an insurgent political subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a model for an ethical 'death knock', the practice by which a journalist approaches a bereaved family to write a story following a newsworthy death. The practice can cause journalists harm, sometimes as moral injury, which results from an ethical breach. Through a literature review and study of Australian journalists, a model of an ethical death knock has emerged that may mitigate moral injury. Elements were developed through analysis of journalists' expression of how they could be better prepared (training, knowledge, advice, support), and what they perceived as the necessary precursors (conditions) for an ethical death knock (the capacity to act honestly, with respect and empathy, and make a personal approach in circumstances that are justified). The model creates conditions for an ethical death knock through alignment with, and valorisation of, the journalist's sense of professional identity, which bolsters their resilience to moral injury. The model is underpinned by Bourdieusian field theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Using elements of Bourdieu's (1986) capitals framework as an underpinning conceptual architecture, this paper theorises the role of symbolic capital in resourcing a specific example of socially entrepreneurial behaviour. Design/methodology/approach: This paper relies on data collected via a qualitative variant of the critical incident technique. Findings: The analysis resulted in three focal themes: power (a dynamic of cooperation rather than domination), age (youth as a means of legitimation) and temporality (as both lever and conduit). Research limitations/implications: These themes further current understanding of socially entrepreneurial behaviour and potentially catalyse additional questioning and investigation specific to the construct of symbolic capital in this context. Practical implications: The insights offered in the paper may assist those tasked with supporting success (policymakers and practitioners) in the social entrepreneurship domain. Originality/value: Relatively little is known about the operationalisation of capitals in the context of social entrepreneurship, and even less about symbolic capital specifically. Particular emphasis is given to moving beyond a focus on the simple mechanics of capital exchange and conversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper offers a critical examination of ethical consumption, exploring how it reinforces social identities within the capitalist framework. It argues for the crucial role of educational institutions in addressing ethical consumption within their curricula. While ethical consumption is often promoted for its moral virtues and its potential to address issues such as environmental sustainability and labor rights, the paper contends that it inadvertently perpetuates capitalist ideologies and exacerbates class divisions. Through this lens, the analysis critiques the ways in which ethical consumption practices sustain existing social structures, often cloaked in the guise of moral virtue. The paper suggests that educational institutions should integrate discussion on ethical consumption into their ethics courses in advertising and marketing programs to facilitate a more thorough examination of its consequences. This approach would equip students to critically navigate the complexities of ethical consumer choices, fostering a generation of informed, discerning, and socially responsible consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the perspectives of long‐term residents in response to the influx of newcomers in two neighbourhoods in Warsaw, Poland. It addresses the crucial, yet understudied, impact of spatial changes on the local population and the diverse ways in which residents negotiate this changing urban context. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical framework and its subsequent reinterpretations in the field of urban studies, the article explores the extent to which the narratives constructed by the long‐standing residents refer to categories of social class and correspond to their class position. The central question is whether spatial changes lead them to 'internalize their inferiority' (Savage, 2008: 161), or if they possess resources that can be mobilized to navigate conflicts arising from urban transitions. Through individual and group interviews with residents from two districts in Warsaw, this research sheds light on how the symbolic divisions between 'us' (long‐term residents) and 'them' (newcomers) are framed. It demonstrates how nativity is transformed into capital, providing the possibility for symbolic dominance. Consequently, it not only enriches understanding of the social distinctions that are made within evolving cities but also underscores the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's theoretical framework for the study of urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Related Articles This article examines the narrative framework in European Union (EU) research and innovation projects, focusing on symbolic practices and terminology. The analysis includes over five years of ethnographic research, and 20 European projects funded by Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, and Erasmus+ programs. It explores different ways project actors internalize and reproduce the EU's symbolic power through its policies, particularly the ambiguous concept of “innovation.” Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, the research highlights the way social structures within the “project field” influence dynamics and outcomes, often resulting in a gap between rhetoric and reality. The study also uncovers broader political and social implications of these practices, calling for critical reflection of their impact. In its conclusion, the authors discuss the challenges of maintaining genuine innovation amidst bureaucratic requirements and the EU's symbolic power, advocating for more nuanced and context‐aware project practices.Kanol, Direnç. 2022. “Narrative Strategies for Emerging Disruptive Technologies: A Case Study of Blockchain for Europe.” Politics & Policy 50(5): 952–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12492.Nowlin, Matthew C., Maren Trochmann, and Thomas M. Rabovsky. 2022. “Advocacy Coalitions and Political Control.” Politics & Policy 50(2): 201–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12458.Von Malmborg, Fredrik. 2023. “Combining the Advocacy Coalition Framework and Argumentative Discourse Analysis: The Case of the ‘Energy Efficiency First’ Principle in EU Energy and Climate Policy.” Politics & Policy 51(2):222–41. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12525. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2015, the UN Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS), formalizing an agenda for positive youth participation in peace and security. However, youth peace activists have been leading peacebuilding long before this institutional recognition. This article explores the dynamics of how advocates and institutional actors conceptualize and negotiate compromise. To do this, it draws on in-depth interviews with youth and adult YPS advocates, a critical analysis of documents related to the agenda, and extended participant observation. It explores and develops a notion of a field of youth-oriented peacebuilding, drawing on Bourdieu. This makes visible a more complex field of struggle, showing how compromise can help explain how youth actively negotiate their participation in formalized agendas and persist in their own peacebuilding ambitions. It argues for a more nuanced understanding of compromise to understand the affordances and limitations of youth agency and institutional agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Private supplementary tutoring, widely described as shadow education in the academic literature, takes place outside regular school hours. It is widespread across the globe, but with diverse structures. Drawing on insights from Myanmar, this article examines how different forms of capital shape tutoring demand and supply. Employing a mixed-methods design, the study was conducted in Mandalay Region and Chin State. Survey data were collected from 1,366 students and 97 teachers, and interviews were conducted with 110 Grade 11 students, 34 high school teachers, 30 parents, 29 tutoring providers, and two private school owners. The article highlights economic, cultural and social capital, noting distinctive features in Myanmar but also commonalities with other societies. The article contributes to conceptual understanding of the forces that shape private tutoring in different settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Global education policy discourse is based on an unshakable belief that more and improved skills will promote economic prosperity, global competitiveness and social inclusion. In England, the Further Education and Skills sector (FES) has emerged as the vehicle to deliver these skills. However, the portrayal of FES as focusing primarily on vocational education for people often adjudged to be 'not academic' positions the sector at the bottom of the educational hierarchy, with negative ramifications for those who teach and study in it. This paper applies a case study approach to explore the lived experiences of five trainee FES teachers completing their initial teacher education (ITE). Drawing on contemporary interpretations of Bourdieu's theory of habitus, I develop Morrin's notion of hauntings to explain the psycho-social, historical and spatial influences on the trainees' responses as they re-enter the field of education as teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws on Bourdieusian social theory to reconceptualise graduate resilience in post-industrial societies to provide a fresh perspective on a concept that has gained increasing prominence in recent years. Through a review of sociological critiques of resilience, this paper argues that graduate resilience is a complex social phenomenon shaped by a range of factors, including material and social resources. In response, we propose an integrated multi-level framework that identifies different stages of graduate resilience, in the context of early transitions into the labour market, and how these stages are shaped at the micro, meso, and macro levels. This framework places resilience in the context of neo-liberalism and highlights structural barriers that hinder the building and signalling of graduate resilience. We argue that the framework enables current representations and understandings of graduate resilience within research, policy, and practice to be problematised and provides a critical starting point for advancing understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Family businesses can be considered unique organizations due to the manifestation of two distinct logics in their environment: on the one hand, the family logic, which values the common good of the members, and on the other, the business logic, which aims at rationalization and obtaining profits. Research on this topic indicates that individuals in these organizations are subject to having their subjectivity hijacked, caused by the experience between the field of work and family, which leads, in a way, to the inability to separate attitudes from the two fields, with no clear division by the individual. The theory of action allowed us to understand organizations as a social field, taking into account the concepts of capital, habitus and illusio. This theoretical article aimed to comparatively discuss the foundations of the Bourdieusian theory of action and the analytical principles of the kidnapping of subjectivity by Faria and Meneghetti (2007), highlighting the possibility of applying them in research on family organizations. This article contributes to the understanding of family organizations as a social field that enables the constitution of a subject who is aware of their choices and knows how to deal with power games in the organizational space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the neoliberal vision for free-market capitalism, discourses validating meritocratic competition reproduce homo œconomicus, narrowly self-interested human capital seeking to maximise its economic utility. Against this background, juku, Japan's network of for-profit, deregulated shadow education institutions, eases educational transitions for enterprising citizens seeking advantage within the nation's highly competitive exam and graduate recruitment systems. However, while 'rational' investments in juku aid neoliberal biographical projects (youth→adolescence→adulthood), they do so through panoptic systems of tension and accommodation, with pivots to individualistic self-interest producing docile entrepreneurs of the self. More damagingly, 'agentive' and 'rational' decisions to engage with juku anchor to transmissible cultural patrimony, creating opportunities to blame those who, through no fault of their own, lack the financial means to self-commodify within Japan's enterprise society. The association between economic output and entrepreneurial selfhood shapes notions of 'worth' in increasingly neoliberal terms. Thus, only by relating juku investment to its social origin may we appreciate the corrosive impact of economic liberalisation on Japan's learning ecology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study employs Bourdieu's theory of practice to analyse 31 interviews with teachers, principals and administrators. I explore the strategies teachers use to handle the mandatory enactment of a Learning Management System (LMS) in Danish primary and lower secondary schools. Teachers are categorised into three groups: those mainly focused on teaching, those with digital responsibilities and those representing the Danish Teachers' Union. The findings reveal three distinct strategies adopted by these groups of teachers. Firstly, teachers solely focused on teaching developed a strategy of resistance, avoiding the use of the LMS in their daily teaching. In contrast, the other two groups of teachers responded to the changes by accumulating either digital or managerial capital to enhance their skills. This latter strategy positioned them as key figures in the eyes of local management, preparing them for advancement. Furthermore, since enhancing skills entails collaborating closely with management, it naturally leads these teachers to support the enactment of the LMS through their actions in the schools. The findings contribute to theoretical development and provide insights into teachers' practices when required to enact change in school. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Western liberal media theories often neglect to recognize "news translation" as one of the journalistic practices. This paper problematizes this dominant understanding of journalistic practice and expands the Bourdieusian media sociology project beyond western media systems by applying it to Indian agency journalism. A case study of the United News of India Urdu (UNIU) serves as the basis for this examination, drawing on an ethnography of news production practices, and supplemented with in-depth interviews conducted with Muslim journalists from 2018 to 2020 across four major Indian cities. Through this investigation, the paper asserts that "news translation" is indeed a vital but contested component of media work within the sphere of Indian-language journalism. The paper uses "media work" as a key concept to demonstrate that UNIU's journalists are anchored in the field of journalism, as is evidenced by their institutional-cum-organizational location and their application of the elements of journalistic practice to their work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing number of international doctoral students choose to study in China, a non-traditional learning destination. However, relatively few studies have investigated these students' academic writing practices while undertaking their studies in China. This study draws upon Bourdieu's concepts of field, habitus, and capital, and the notion of global-national-local imbrications, to explore 20 international doctoral students' language-engagement experiences in a Chinese university. Our analysis found that English and Chinese co-exist to varying and sometimes shifting degrees in doctoral students' academic writing practices. As a result, some students potentially developed a hybrid, 'in-between', cosmopolitan habitus. Notably, however, other students felt disempowered in the Chinese HE 'sub-field', with its unique logics of practice. Students' experiences indicate that multifarious language practices potentially create a heavily hybridised 'sub-field' characterised by a multitude of imbricating global, national, and local influences, and highlight the need to ensure that the language of instruction is indeed oriented to student learning – a language for learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the reactions of English pupils who were preparing for GCSE and A-Level examinations to the 2020 exam cancellations resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. In doing so, it addresses a gap in international research related to high stakes testing by presenting pupils' perspectives. It uses a Bourdieusian framework to explore the role that exams played within the everyday educational experiences of four secondary school pupils. I demonstrate that pupils displayed an exam-oriented habitus which both recognised and was critical of exams as part of the wider 'game' of education. The 2020 GCSE and A-Level exam cancellation disrupted this habitus, leading participants to critically question and challenge an exam-focused education system. With the current uncertainty regarding the 2021 GCSE and A-Level exams in England, this paper argues that listening to the voices of young people also has two implications for wider consideration. Young people are uniquely positioned to comment critically on the quality of education systems which focus on high stake assessment. Listening to such criticality realises the potential for equity, engaging with voices which have previously gone unheard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous research shows that the lockdown of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic increased the already existing inequalities in education but little is known about the processes underlying these outcomes. In this study we used Bourdieu's theories to explore how interactions between teachers' expectations of parents and parents' availability of cultural, social and economic capital could potentially influence educational inequalities in the context of distance education. The analysis is based on 24 qualitative interviews with parents from different social backgrounds, teachers and school coordinators, sampled from an inner-city primary school in Flanders (Belgium). The results indicate that teachers continue to have standardised expectations of the proper role that parents should perform in distance education, which were difficult for some families to meet due their availability of cultural and economic capital. However, this study suggests that teachers' exposure to familial issues can result in teachers adapting their expectations and responses so that they are more likely to respond to the needs of parents and students in the field of distance education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of the Dutch field of education by drawing on interviews and observations from long-lasting relationships with experts in the field. Studying how these "key players" discuss the educational field, we explore how the lack of effective solutions may be related to the ways in which leading educational experts make sense of the educational system and its ailments, as well as what they see as promising solutions. We find that experts concur on the main logics of the educational field but assess the main problems and solutions differently. Despite experts being professionally situated within the same field, their views on the biggest issues and potentially effective measures to counteract them diverge strongly. This article concludes that this lack of consistency in problem assessment of our respondents may suggest why certain flaws of the educational field are difficult to address and hence remain salient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper proposes the use of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological concepts of social fields, capital, and habitus to analyze water management in Colombia. By mapping the social dynamics of water management, this study examines the interactions and power relationships among agents, including government agencies, private companies, academic institutions, non-profits, and local communities. The analysis reveals how various forms of capital, such as economic, cultural, social, and symbolic, influence water management practices, policies, and the distribution of power. Integrating agent-based modeling with hydrological simulations provides a more nuanced understanding of how social dynamics influence water management. This interdisciplinary approach helps develop more adaptive and equitable strategies by capturing the complex interactions between human behavior and environmental factors. This study highlights the need to localize the analysis of the social field to capture regional customs and specific social dynamics. This localized approach ensures that water management strategies are more relevant, context sensitive, and sustainable. This paper advocates for the wider adoption of agent-based modeling in water management, proposing a methodology that combines the engineering principles of practical problem solving and adaptive design with an understanding of the social complexities in water management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Internationally, there are concerns that more needs to be done to address the inequalities in participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects at the degree level. In response, research focused on better understanding what influences young people's STEM participation has focused on a range of factors. This paper contributes to the existing research with an analysis of how "science capital" and "STEM identity" relate to STEM participation. We draw on data from 3310 young people aged 21–22 who had undertaken an undergraduate degree, 523 of whom studied a STEM subject. We found that science capital and STEM identity were statistically significantly related to studying a STEM degree (with science capital being weakly and STEM identity strongly associated with STEM study at university). Adopting a Bourdieusian lens, we discuss what our findings mean for higher education and what more could be done to support students, especially those who are currently under-represented in STEM, such as through better recognising and developing their science capital and supporting their sense of belonging in STEM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Politische) Erwachsenenbildung ist aus der Perspektive der Autoren ein wesentlicher Ort, um geflüchtete Menschen in ihren biographischen Umbrüchen und bei der Verarbeitung kollektiver Gewalterfahrungen zu unterstützen und damit vor allem ihre gesellschaftlich-politische Teilhabe in den Aufnahmegesellschaften zu fördern. Der Beitrag stellt mit Bourdieus Konzept der symbolischen Gewalt einen Ansatz vor, mit dessen Hilfe sich Erwachsenenbildung gewaltsensibler ausrichten kann. Die Autoren formulieren zwei pädagogische Grundsätze: dem Thema Gewalt Raum geben und im Sprechen über Gewalt keine neue Gewalt produzieren. Als methodische Ansätze bieten sich u.a. Verständigungs- und Austauschräume oder die Biographiearbeit an, um Menschen darin zu unterstützen, ihre Gewalterfahrungen zu reflektieren. (Red.)

Based on 30 one-on-one in-depth interviews and 24 focus group interviews with 120 Black Caribbean pupils in one of the largest state secondary schools in South London, this article examines how Black students make sense of their concentration in lower-ranked classes as facilitated through academic tracking. While previous research documents the academic, social and psychological implications of tracking, setting and other "ability" grouping practices for various racial, ethnic and class groups, comparatively little attention has been devoted to how the persistent misrecognition of Black pupils in Britain often results in academic profiling in schools. Academic profiling is here defined as the persistent mischaracterization of Black and other racially minoritized students based on their past achievements and dominant cultural stereotypes. The results of this study suggest that Black Caribbean participants experience academic profiling as a signature feature of their educational experiences, whether in bottom, middle or top sets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Den norske idrettsmodellen har tradisjonelt bestått av en symbiose mellom offentlig sektor som har subsidiert etableringen av idrettsanlegg, og frivillige idrettsorganisasjoner som har fylt anleggene med aktivitet. På bakgrunn av private fotballakademiers inntog undersøker vi i denne artikkelen hvordan organisasjoner i den klassiske modellen (kommune, idrettskrets, fotballkrets, fotballklubb) forholder seg til private fotbalakademier, og om de private aktørene truer den klassiske idrettsmodellen. Vi anvender Bourdieus felt som teoretisk perspektiv, mens vi metodisk baserer oss på intervjuer med nøkkelaktører som primær metode, supplert med analyse av idrettspolitiske dokumenter fra staten, Norges idrettsforbund og Norges fotballforbund. Hovedfunnene er for det første at de private fotballakademienes ønske om banetilgang blir møtt av en tilnærmet proteksjonistisk idrettskrets som tilsynelatende søker å beholde en doksisk makt over de ressursene anlegg er. Det er like fullt slik at de private akademiene ved sin søken etter samme gode som den etablerte idretten bruker, skaper en heterodoks situasjon i idrettsfeltet. Dikotomien blir nyansert av både kommunen, som har som oppgave å tjene alle borgere, og av fotballkretsen. Kommunen forvalter idrettsanlegg gjennom sine tolkninger av regelverket, som er noe mer generøs overfor private aktører enn idrettskretsens tolkning, og tillater dermed noe utleie til private fotballakademier. Fotballkretsen på sin side fremstår som fagnerder som setter aktiviteten fotball og utvikling av fotballspillere over de mer sektorbaserte ideologiene som idrettskretsen forfekter. Både kommunen og fotballkretsen forsterker gjennom sin aksept den heterodoksi som de private aktørene bringer inn i fotballfeltet og idrettsfeltet.