1st Edition
For a New Political Sociology The Relational Approach of Pierre Bourdieu
1. Introduction: For a relational political sociology
Will Atkinson
Part I. Class and political position-taking
2. Class ethos and political parties in ante-Brexit Britain: A shifting correspondence
Will Atkinson
3. Classed voting and the gender gap: A social space approach to an intersectional analysis
Magne Flemmen, Nora C. W. Essahli and Jan Fredrik Hovden
4. Class and politics in post-socialist Poland
Piotr Marzec
Part II. Politics and states in times of crisis
5. Civil wars as situations of radical social change: Thinking ruptures, with and beyond Bourdieu
Adam Baczko and Gilles Dorronsoro
6. National political fields and international politics: A Bourdieusian analysis of Middle East regional politics during the Arab Spring
Francesco D’alema
Part III. Rethinking international relations
7. The field of nation states and the genesis of national strategies
Frédéric Lebaron, Andreas Schmitz and Will Atkinson
8. The limits of the state: Multiple interests and weakened circuits in delivering China’s ‘Belt and Road Initiative’
Qizhen Wang and Will Atkinson
Part IV. A reflexive political sociology
9. A reflexive sociology of political science: Global and national discursive spaces
Jonas Volle and Andreas Schmitz
10. Bourdieu’s political sociology: From imperialism to the state and back again
George Steinmetz
Biography
Will Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author/editor of ten books on social class and Bourdieu’s social theory, including Class in the New Millennium (2017), Bourdieu and After (2020) and a four-volume series on The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies (2020-25).
“This is a timely and highly original collection of papers that brings Bourdieu’s relational sociology to the political. An important contribution.”
—David L. Swartz, Boston University, USA
