1st Edition
Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context Essays from India and France
Introduction by the Editors 1. The Crises of Imperial Societies Christophe Charle 2. Thinking the State with Bourdieu and Foucault U. Kalpagam 3. Bourdieu’s Theory of the Symbolic: Traditions and Innovations Sheena Jain 4. The Field of Indian Knowledge in France in the 1930s Roland Lardinois 5. Literature and Politics During the German Occupation Gisele Sapiro 6. Symbolic Violence and Masculine dominance in the Vichy Regime Francine Muel-Dreyfus 7. Habitus, Performance and Women’s Experience in Everyday Life Meenakshi Thapan 8. Pierre Bourdieu and Anthropology Alban Bensa 9. Documents and Testimony: Violence in the Bombay Riots Deepak Mehta Index
Biography
Roland Lardinois teaches at the CNRS, Paris.
Meenakshi Thapan teaches in the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.
