Bourdieu and social movements : ideological struggles in the British anti-capitalist movement / Joseph Ibrahim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibrahim, Joseph, 1974- author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in European political sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Social movements--Great Britain.

Social movements.

Social classes--Great Britain.

Social classes.

Political and social views.

Great Britain.

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002--Political and social views.

Bourdieu, Pierre.

Physical Description:

xiv, 164 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

"Bourdieu and Social Movements is part of a burgeoning literature that employs Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical technologies for understanding and explaining the complex dynamics of social movements. This book uses Bourdieu's key concepts to understand activists political history, ideological competition and conflict between movements, the success and failure of political mobilizations , and how crises create opportunities for social movement emergence.Drawing on rich ethnography, Ibrahim details the key stages of development of, and ideological competition and conflict between, 21st century British anti-capitalist organizations, and their interactions with wider social and political forces, and demonstrates how a new perspective is needed beyond established social movement theories in order to understand inter-movement conflict. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

1. Introduction: A New Era of Social Movement Analysis: A Bourdieusian Approach2. Anti-neoliberalism and British Anti-capitalism3. Towards a New Theory of Social Movement Practice4. Political Distinction and the Reflexive Anti-capitalist Habitus5. Fields of Struggle: Ideological Competition and Conflict6. A Very British Coup: Transforming Fields Through Superior Capital7. The Occupy Movement: a Crisis of Doxa8. Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137371027

1137371021

OCLC:

907184020