Bourdieu, Habitus and Field

Sadiya Akram is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Sadiya’s research is concerned with race and racism, concepts of agency and political mobilisation. The socio-political thought of Pierre Bourdieu is a focal point of her work.

• Chapter 1. Bourdieu: From Epistemology to Ontology.- Chapter 2. Critical Realism: Ontology in an Era of Ontological Scepticism.- Chapter 3. Habitus: A Critical Realist Interpretation.- Chapter 4. Fields: Bourdieu and Beyond.- Chapter 5. A Bourdieusian Approach to Institutions.- Chapter 6. Habitus: From Theory to Method? A Six-point Heuristic.- Chapter 7. Taking Bourdieu into the World.