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Acting Politics: A Critical Sociology of the Political Field (Media, Culture and Critique: Future Imperfect) by Alfredo Joignant Rondón; Alfredo Joignant is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Following Bourdieu, this book seeks ‘to think about politics without thinking politically’, advancing the view that politics as conventionally understood does not take place in a social vacuum, but in the context of a certain topography of society that cannot be reduced to formal spaces (such as a parliament). Engaging with Bourdieu’s theory of fields and focusing specifically on the notion of the ‘political field’, the author analyses from a sociological perspective the functioning of the political field, seeing it not simply as a formal space, but as encompassing a sphere that is increasingly autonomous from others and driven by reasons and motives beyond those conventionally recognised as political. Illustrated with cases from the real political life of different countries, Acting Politics examines the nature of the practices of the agents who inhabit the political field, building a picture of a type of competitive political activity that is fundamentally social and symbolic. A sociological reading of the agents, struggles and forms of the contemporary political field, this book thinks with and against Bourdieu in a broad dialogue with different sociological currents and debates

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Author

Alfredo Joignant Rondón; Alfredo Joignant

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315211138

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science